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Article: STATE DEPT.: POLAR BEARS FACE SERIOUS THREAT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 4, 2007
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The U.S. Department of State's International Information Programs issued the following press release:
By Lea TerhuneWashington File Staff Writer
"Polar bears are one of nature's ultimate survivors, able to live and thrive in one of the world's harshest environments, but we are concerned the polar bears' habitat may literally be melting," Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne said on introducing a proposal in December 2006 to list the bears as an endangered species.
His plan allows a year for data review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service "to broaden our understanding of what is happening with the species," before a final determination on whether to list the bear as endangered.
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