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Last week, a polar bear injured a skier on Baffin Island. Several readers commented on the incident. We try to unpack the ...
The findings could aid conservation efforts for the beloved species, which is found in only one Mexico City lake.
Melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is putting incredible pressure on animals like polar bears, penguins, seals, and walruses, threatening their survival as their habitats shrink and food sources ...
The Center has led the charge to save polar bears from extinction. We wrote the 2005 scientific petition calling for their protection under the Endangered Species Act, and we filed suit twice with our ...
In Canada, where 60 to 80 percent of polar bears live, they’re a species of special concern, a click of the dial below threatened or endangered. The population in the Western Hudson is ...
Video footage from the Arctic town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows the polar bear charging at a man who fired at him.
Late last week, a polar bear attacked a skier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Other visitors came to the skier’s ...
After biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences said it successfully created three dire wolf puppies ...
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Can Polar Bears Sue? Legal Rights for Non-Human Species
Imagine a world where the polar bear, stranded on a shrinking ice floe, could stand before a court and demand justice for its threatened existence. It sounds almost surreal, even whimsical — yet the ...
In conservation, the term "flagship species" is used to refer to animals that represent something bigger, like an entire ...
“Polar bears are in danger of going extinct in much of their range due to a warming arctic. They were the first vertebrate species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened due ...
Political battles and partisan ideologies are threatening the survival of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the animals it is supposed to serve, researchers are warning. Wildlife management ...