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Dear Friend,
I find it truly shocking that in this day and age, hunters are still gunning down polar bears to peddle their skins, teeth, claws and skulls on the international market.
If you agree that the world doesn’t have polar bears to spare -- certainly not to end up as rugs -- then please help NRDC end this gruesome trade once and for all.
Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to propose a ban on the trafficking of polar bears for profit.
This is a make or break moment. The Obama Administration is deciding whether or not to propose such a ban at the next meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
This is no time for our government to be on the fence about polar bear protection.
Polar bears are already struggling for survival. They are mortally threatened by climate change, toxic pollution and oil development.
Scientists predict that rising temperatures alone will cause two-thirds of the world’s polar bears to go extinct by 2050. We simply can’t afford to let commercial hunting and trafficking kill off hundreds of them every year.
In 2010, at the last meeting of CITES, the United States led the way and sponsored a ban -- but that effort fell short of the votes needed. Since then, the polar bear’s plight has only grown more dire.
Please ask the Obama Administration to lead the way again by proposing a ban, in advance of the next meeting of CITES in March 2013, and to build a winning coalition with like-minded range states, such as Russia, to pass it.
Polar bears need our help more than ever. In the face of the climate change that is ravaging their habitat, we must do everything we can to bolster their populations for the sake of polar bear survival.
I hope you’ll stand with me and NRDC in defense of polar bears by sending a message to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today. And thank you for responding to their plight.
Sincerely,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
NRDC Senior Attorney
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