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Status of Protection for Polar Bears Remains Unresolved

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Follow up on January 7, 2008 posting Federal Fish and Wildlife Statement for Polar Bear Decision, additional information and links.

  • San Francisco Chronicle: Groups cite oil leases in U.S. delay on rating polar bear’s status, by Jane Kay: “Environmental groups fear that political meddling and a rush to sell oil leases in Arctic waters are behind the Bush administration’s announcement Monday that it will miss a legal deadline to determine whether to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act.”
  • Press release: “The Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Greenpeace initiated legal action against the Bush administration today by submitting a formal notice of intent to sue the administration for missing the deadline to decide whether or not polar bears will be listed under the Endangered Species Act due to global warming. Today’s notice of intent to sue must be sent prior to filing a lawsuit in federal court.
    • “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to protect the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA.) A proposed rule that would add the polar bear to the federal list of threatened and endangered species was published on January 9, 2007, opening a 90-day comment period on this proposed listing.”
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