Polar bear trade ban vote defeated at meeting

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21703090


Pelts and other body parts are exported from bears hunted in the Canadian Arctic

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.

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1. Savages.

> Pelts and other body parts are exported from bears hunted in the Canadian Arctic

Hunting for survival is one thing. (Kill what you eat and eat what you kill.)

Hunting for profit is sick and the scum who do it are disgusting.