Polar Bears Starving

[Beaverhausen]

Dear Beaverhausen,

While the Bush Administration refuses to clamp down on America's
biggest global warming polluters . . .

. . . there are alarming new reports of POLAR BEARS STARVING in
the Arctic and being driven to extremes of survival behavior
because of the rapidly changing climate.

I'll share more about it below. But first, I need you to take
IMMEDIATE ACTION because new global warming bills are being
debated in Congress -- and they could be a critical factor in
saving the polar bear from extinction.

In advance of key votes on a global warming bill, we must build
the ranks of concerned Americans who are committed to saving
polar bears by making their voices heard on Capitol Hill.

Go to the Tell-A-Friend page of our Polar Bear SOS website and
send out as many SOS messages as you can to your friends and
family: http://www.polarbearsos.org/tellfriends

That way, when a tough global warming bill is nearing a vote, we
can alert millions of online activists to support it -- and win
its passage into law.

Right now, the need for such legislation is distressingly
apparent. The Arctic spring in Greenland is coming two weeks
earlier than it did in 1996 -- a rate of climate change that far
outstrips warming trends seen elsewhere in the Northern
Hemisphere.

As the sea ice melts earlier and earlier each year, there have
been more and more reports of starving polar bears being forced
to resort to heart-breaking acts of desperation.

Only last summer, an adult bear -- his hip bones visible through
his hide -- killed a polar bear cub for food in the first-ever
eyewitness account of polar bear infanticide.

The scientists who observed this never-before-seen behavior
linked the killing of the cub -- and other recent reports of
polar bear cannibalism in Alaska's Beaufort Sea -- to
"nutritional stress related to a longer ice-free period."

They also predicted that as the ice melt continues to
accelerate, tragic incidents like these will become more
frequent. This is the terrible and inexcusable toll that global
warming is taking on the polar bear.

And our very best hope to prevent an even bigger tragedy is to
start cutting our global warming pollution now.

So while you have this message in front of you -- please rally
your friends in support of imperiled polar bears by sending SOS
messages to as many people as you can at
http://www.polarbearsos.org/tellfriends

Thanks to you, we prevailed in court and forced the Bush
Administration to propose giving the polar bear federal
protection. Then, we deluged the administration with hundreds of
thousands of Citizen Comments in support of that protection.

Now, with your help, we'll be poised and ready to unleash the
power of one million online activists in support of global
warming legislation that could be a lifeline for the polar bear.
I hope you'll do your part today. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

P.S. Want to do more to rush to the aid of the polar bear? Go to
our http://www.polarbearsos.org website now.

[cboy4]

1. I hate hearing about this. And I'm convinced it's the reason that

arctic seal wound up in Ft. Lauderdale and died. :(



http://www.nbc6.net/news/13278343/detail.html

[Beaverhausen]

2. can we get this on the front page please?

thanks! :hi:

[Mabus]

11. Here's to the cause

A mid-afternoon K&R (that makes 10).

[StarryNite]

3. This breaks my heart.

:cry:

[City Lights]

4. Thanks, Beaverhausen.

I had it sent to family and friend. Heartbreaking...:cry:

[UnyieldingHierophant]

5. Polar Bears taste like chicken.

[formercia]

8. Better cook it Well .

Trichinosis is endemic in Polar Bears.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis

[Double T]

6. Do SOMETHING to curb global warming. If YOU don't start TODAY.......

WHO WILL? The destruction of the polar bears, walruses and seals will continue UNLESS YOU DO SOMETHING?

[flvegan]

7. Recommend number 5, right here.

[Uncle Joe]

9. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Beaverhausen.

[Beaverhausen]

10. MORE

Dear Lisa,

The House of Representatives could vote today on an amendment that would stop wealthy U.S. trophy hunters from killing polar bears in Canada and bringing their quarry back to this country. Your Representative holds a key vote to make it happen.

Please write your Representative today and let them know you want to protect polar bears with a YES vote on the Inslee-LoBiondo Amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill.

Climate change is driving polar bears to extinction. In fact, the world's polar bears could disappear from most of their range in the next 100 years... unless we take action now to save them by addressing climate change and reducing other threats to the polar bear's fragile existence.

That's why it is so important that we close the deadly loophole in the Marine Mammal Protection Act that allows wealthy American trophy hunters to sidestep the U.S. ban on polar bear hunting by paying tens of thousands of dollars to kill Canadian polar bears.

Help us close this deadly loophole. Take action now to save polar bears.

Last month, nearly 30,000 activists like you wrote elected officials urging them to support the Polar Bear Protection Act, the bill that would close this deadly loophole for good. Now comes the chance to remove funding for the program that allows the import of polar bear parts into the U.S. -- a key step to protect these magnificent animals as we work to pass the Polar Bear Protection Act.

Write your Representative today and urge a YES vote on the Inslee-LoBiondo Amendment to the Interior Appropriations Bill -- A vote could come at any moment!

Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund’s Campaign to Save Polar Bears is in full swing -- and you play a key role in making a brighter future for polar bears as they face threats from trophy hunters, Big Oil’s rigs and global warming.

Thank you for all you do to protect our wildlife and wild places.

[TX-RAT]

14. HR-2643 Did not pass.

It was defeated

242 to 188

[lostinacause]

12. In the global warming debate polar bears are all but trivial...

[AZBlue]

13. K&R!!

This just breaks my heart - thank you for the link.