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"We don't have any substantial records that the oil and gas exploration have created an issue for the polar bear, " said Dale Hall, director of Fish and Wildlife.
CNN: Polar bear now listed as 'threatened' species
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American biologist and polar bear expert Steven Amstrup said this was the first time he had heard of the bears living in large numbers on a tabular iceberg out at sea.
BBC: Polar bear sanctuary on iceberg
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Mr Blaszkiewitz said the polar bear may be preserved and displayed at Berlin's Natural History Museum, DPA reports.
BBC: Candles by Knut's enclosure
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While some of its effects are inevitable (some polar bear habitat absolutely will be lost, Derocher said), there are longer-term solutions that could help save some of the polar-bear-ness of the polar bear.
CNN: Don't feed the (polar) bears
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"After years of delay, the Bush administration was forced to face the reality that global warming has endangered the polar bear and that the polar bear needs to be placed on the Endangered Species Act, " said Markey in a statement to CNN.
CNN: Polar bear now listed as 'threatened' species
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Mr Audla said that less than 1% of the global polar bear population was traded.
BBC: Polar bear trade ban vote defeated at meeting
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Dr Andrew Kitchener, curator of birds and mammals at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where the remains are kept, said to date it was Scotland's only identified resident polar bear.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | New tests on rare polar bear find
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"The American government is using the threat of climate change to justify banning the international trade in polar bear parts while utterly failing to do anything to reduce their own activities, " said James Eetoolook of the Nunavut Tunngavik, a group that represents Inuit interests.
BBC: Polar bear trade ban divides campaigners
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"The world once again had a chance to take action to safeguard polar bear populations and failed, " Jeff Flocken, North American regional director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said in a statement.
CNN: World rejects new protections for polar bears