Hunting Polar Bears

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Polar bears are classified as endangered species.  

Polar bears are being killed due to man-made global warming. Polar bears are being killed due to man-made pesticides.  Polar bears are being killed due to man-made high powered rifles so their heads can be cut off and put over someone’s fireplace.

According to the UN over the last 10 years nearly 9,000 polar bear specimens were exported for commercial purposes. These specimens included 2,849 skins, 108 skulls, and 1,249 claws.  Under Canadian law the hunting of polar bears by tourists and the commercial trading of polar bear parts is legal. 

Endangered species have different classifications and that is why Canada’s polar bear hunting laws and commercial trading of polar bear parts is not illegal.

There are three different classifications: Appendix I, II and III.  Polar bears are classified under appendix II but should be put at appendix I so the senseless and horrific hunting will stop. (Hunting for sustainable subsistence by native peoples of polar bears is not controlled and should not be controlled under these classifications).

Please contact the US Fish and Wildlife Department and tell them to change the classification.  Please tell them that hunting and trading body parts of any animal, let alone an endangered animal, is a bad idea.  For some reason I think they probably already know this but apparently unless they are verbally assaulted with this information they won’t do anything about it.

Only about 25,000 polar bears left: May they procreate to their heart’s content and then die of old age.