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Britain urged to stop supporting the trade in dead polar bears

2013-01-20 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Environmentalists including Chris Packham and Bear Grylls have urged Britain to drop its support for polar bear trading claiming that the UK's opposition to a ban has contributed to thousands of the animals being hunted for rugs, trophies and body-parts. Although the polar bear's survival is threatened by the melting of its Arctic sea-ice habitat, it is still legal to hunt the animals in Canada. Wealthy tourists from as far afield as China pay up to $20,000 to track and hunt the endangered...

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