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Polar bear vote defeated at meeting
2013-03-07 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A proposal by the US to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated on Thursday at an international meeting. The result marks a victory for Canada's indigenous Inuit people over their bigger neighbour to the south. Delegates at the Cites meeting in Thailand rejected the proposal to change the bear's status from a species whose trade is regulated, not banned. A similar proposal was defeated three years ago at the last Cites meeting. The latest plan fell far short...
Canada: Bid to halt polar bear trade fails
2013-03-07 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The export of polar bear skins, teeth and paws from Canada will continue unabated after a bitter debate at the world's biggest wildlife summit ended in defeat for a US proposal to outlaw the trade. The US, strongly supported by former cold war foe Russia, had argued that while climate change and the increasing loss of the Arctic sea ice on which polar bears hunt was the greatest threat to the 20,000 remaining in the wild, hunting was an intolerable additional pressure. The US delegation leader...
Conservation body rejects polar bear trade ban
2013-03-07 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A proposal by the United States to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated Thursday at an international meeting of conservationists, marking a victory for Canada's indigenous Inuit people over their big neighbor to the south. Delegates at the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, rejected Washington's proposal to change the status of the polar bear from a species whose trade is merely regulated, not banned. The...
03.20: Greg Bear CANCELLED
2013-03-06 09:34:50| Powells Books Events Calendar
In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood — a horrifying shape-changing parasite — has arrived in force. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. Greg Bear's Halo: Silentium (Tor) is the third book in his Forerunner trilogy. We're sorry to report that this event has been cancelled.
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Canada Inuit, conservationists oppose polar bear trade crackdown
2013-03-05 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Proposals to ban trade in polar bear furs will do little to ensure the animals' long-term future, Canada's Arctic Inuit and two major conservationist groups both say. The United States wants the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) to list the bears as endangered at its meeting in Bangkok this week, a move that would prohibit international trade in their body parts and fur. But the Inuit say that would slash one of the few sources of income...
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