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A cross-border battle is looming over polar bears, the Arctic giants that provoke passionate reactions in both Canada and the United States.
The U.S. wants to ban the trade in polar-bear body parts, a proposal that will be considered at a meeting beginning next week of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Canada, the only country allowing the sale of bear skins and trophy hunting of the animals, is trying to defeat the proposal.
Canada opposes U.S. effort to ban polar bear trade
Seeded on Sun Mar 7, 2010 3:15 AM EST
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There are tight hunting restrictions to preserve the number of polar bears in the Arctic, there is a lottery to which the Inuit people can apply. Only one or two bears are permitted to be killed from each northern community. Only 500 bears in total are allowed to be hunted each year.
Just the skins sell for up to $9,000. Paws go for under a thousand. And then there is the bile. (those Chinese will buy anything). That's a lot of revenue for do-gooders to take away from impoverished Inuit villages.
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