sigh...doesn't it seem like a good idea to stop trying to manage Mother nature and just let the bears and the seals (and the wolves and the elk) &c, &c, come to their own "balance of nature"?
Regards,
GtG
In the U.S. the bears are protected from hunting by non-Alaska Natives — who can hunt some polar bears for tribal needs. There are also special importation rules for polar bears and polar bear parts and products.
Polar bears are also protected by international conservation agreements between the U.S. and other countries, such as the Russian Federation.
A federal court recently threw out a federal government plan to protect polar bears and designate a 187,000-square mile area of Alaska — larger than the state of California — as a critical habitat for polar bears. The court ruled that the plan went too far, and that the government needed to correct “substantive and procedural deficiencies.”
I think we should train polar bears to hunt baby seals.