Polar bear ban defeated at UN conservation...

Courtesy Outdoor Recreation News  Thu, 03/18/2010 - 06:46

The Americans argued at the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, that the sale of polar bears skins was compounding the loss of the animals' sea ice habitat due to climate change.


 

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