US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear parts
Source: The Guardian
US ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear parts
• US Fish and Wildlife Services to shift focus to climate change’s effects on bears
• Canada had opposed ban as threats to hunting economy and Inuit practices
Oliver Milman
Wednesday 4 May 2016 17.17 BST
The US government has quietly dropped its campaign for an international ban in the trade of polar bear parts, which would have given the practice the same outlaw status as the elephant ivory market.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has spent several years attempting to ban the overseas trade of polar bear skins, teeth, paws and other parts from Canada, which permits the hunting of the Arctic predators.
However, the federal agency has said it won’t pursue the matter further at an international summit of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), in September. Instead, the US will focus on the threat posed to polar bears from climate change.
“Though we remain concerned about the commercial use of polar bear hides as an additional threat to the species, we are not pursuing increased Cites protections at this time,” the USFWS said in a statement.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/04/us-drops-ban-polar-bear-parts-trade
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You're going to continue paying lip service to "climate change threats"
while allowing little-dick hunters to continue killing off the bears in the meantime?
What a fucking waste of space.
