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Um — About Those Vanishing Polar Bears…

Posted by Humberto Fontova BigJournalism.com
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that the polar bear population is currently at 20,000 to 25,000 bears, up from as low as 5,000-10,000 bears in the 1950s and 1960s. A 2002 U.S. Geological Survey of wildlife in the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain noted that the polar bear populations “may now be near historic highs.”

Better yet, let’s listen to a scientist who has been studying polar bears for the past thirty years, both as an academic and as the Canadian government’s director of wildlife research in its most important polar bear habitat, and who is widely regarded as the world’s top authority on the creatures. Here’s Canadian scientist Dr. Mitchell Taylor’s take on the matter:

It is just silly to predict the demise of polar bears in 25 years based on media-assisted hysteria…There aren’t just a few more bears. There are a hell of a lot more bears. Scientific knowledge has demonstrated that Inuit knowledge was right.

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Two Insurgents Seeking Refuge in a Cave Killed by a Bear

clipped from www.foxnews.com

As if gunfire and airstrikes were enough to worry about, now militants have something else to watch out for — territorial bears.

Two Muslim separatists in Kashmir, India, were mauled by a bear Sunday night after they encountered the animal in a cave where they had sought shelter, according to reports. Two other militants escaped the attack, one with serious injuries.