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The Wonder of Polar Bears

July 29, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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bears, globalwarming, kektavik, mensjournal, polar, richardnelson, seaice

This month’s Men’s Journal has a nice profile by Jacques Leslie of Richard Nelson, a naturalist and radio personality, and a recent trip Nelson took to Kaktovik, Alaska, to narrate a monologue about the polar bear. Seeing an animal...continued

Polar Bear News

May 7, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
arctic, armstrong, bears, biogems, endangeredspecies, globalwarming, polarbears, snowgoose, wildlife

Andrew Revkin just posted a nice link to a recent response by one of the world's foremost polar bear experts to an attack on global-warming based predictions of polar bear declines.  The original critique was written by J. Scott Armstrong,...continued

Movement towards lead-free ammunition spreads

March 20, 2009

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
bears, condor, condors, eagles, lead, leadammunition, nationalparks

Last week, as the National Park Service announced that it would move to phase out the use of lead ammunition in those few national parks that allow hunting. This is good news, and follows California's decision to phase out lead...continued

Andrew Wetzler
Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
Chicago
I grew up in New York City but spent my summers canoeing and hiking in...
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