Alaska critical habitat for polar bear declared

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 06:28 in Biology & Nature

n a move applauded by WWF, the US Department of the Interior has announced the proposed designation of almost 52 million hectares of key polar bear habitat across Alaska. The requirement for the identification of 'critical habitat' was triggered by the listing of polar bears as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act in 2008...

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