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DOI's Polar Bear Problem
Congratulations, polar bears! You've just won 200,541 square miles of Alaskan habitat... maybe. After being sued by several environmental groups, the US Fish & Wildlife Service announced today that polar bears may receive what's thought to be the largest critical habitat ever. Too bad just earlier this week the Minerals Management Service announced that they'd approved Shell to drill in some of those those same 200,541 square miles. So what's it gonna be? Oil, or bears? Right now, that's to be determined. Fish & Wildlife will open a 60-day public comment period on the bear habitat proposal, but doesn't have to make a final decision on whether to actually award the land under the Endangered Species Act until June 30, 2010.
The proposed polar bear habitat, if it gets awarded, is extensive enough to encompass summer and winter sea ice, terrestrial denning areas, and islands. The terrestrial portion is in the Northern part of Alaska, some of it within a 20 mile radius from the US-Canada border, and some of it within a 5 mile radius of Barrow and the Kavik River. The sea ice/water portion extends over the Continental Shelf and includes water up to 300 meters deep. Under the Endangered Species Act, now that the polar bear is finally listed, the government must designate critical habitat.
But that's not stopping the State of Alaska: this week it filed a supplement to its 2008 lawsuit contending that the government didn't really listen to its concerns before listing the polar bear as endangered. In a press conference yesterday, Alaska's attorney general said the state was doing "a good job in protecting the species," and that the government's models predicting further sea ice declines were "flawed." A representative from the Center for Biological Diversity, quoted by the AP, begged to differ:
"We are really disappointed to see that the state of Alaska is continuing to deny the science of climate change... It is ironic in a state that is feeling the impacts of global warming before everyone else that the state would take this position that can only hurt Alaskans."
The ecological imbalance
The ecological imbalance that human beings are creating in the world is responsible for all these changes. The animal and plant kingdom slowly dying. In my opinion this trend leads to disastrous situation for human mankind...
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Where do you get your information? What trend? What ecological imbalance. It's as if you haven't seen any of the ecological recovery that has taken place over the last 32 years here in the United States. Our Flyways are filled with birds. Our water is the cleanest it has been in history. The reintroduction of Buffalo, Black-footed Ferrets, the Grizzly Bear, Black Bear, Big Horn sheep, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, Wolves, Moose, Elk and others are indicators of the work other have done successfully. Instead of sitting on your duff in some city apartment complaining come and help us. Come out to Rural America and make a difference. Yes, there is more we can do but to imply that we are on a path to doom rather than a path to making things better is not simply false, it is ignorant. Come and try to help....just try.
seriously?
Um, are you serious? Our waters are the "cleanest than it has been in history"? Have you ever heard great Pacific plastic garbage patch (which is the size of two Texases) and the alarming levels of endocrine disrupting chemicals in our water to the point where fish and alligators are feminizing? Have you heard of mass die-offs of our ancient coral reefs? Unprecedented occurences of algal blooms? Plankton dissipation? Yes the Clean Water Act clean up some chemicals and made things better; but it doesn't address the new generation of chemicals (mainly plastics). And you really think it's been more so than ever in history, including pre-Industrial times? Are you joking?
As for your list-off of "recovered" endangered species--yep, they've rebounded in pocket regions...if you can call making up less than 5% of their former ranges a full recovery and a success story.
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Thanks for this amazing
Thanks for this amazing post! Environmentalists and global warming alarmists use the polar bear as a central figure in their campaigns and the network news and other media eat it up, eager to show heart-string-tugging images of polar bears “stranded” on melting ice.
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