Ask The Bush Administration To Stand Up For Polar Bears  Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Yes, it is Super Tuesday...and we are less than one year away from having a new President of the United States.  However, there are decisions that still need to be made by the current administration - President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney - that will affect the outcome of many things.  One of those things being polar bears.

Though the Bush administration's own scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey said that global warming and habitat loss are very real and could actually lead to polar bears' extinction in the U.S. by 2050 - and despite the widespread jokes about polar bears sitting on rocks where ice caps used to be - polar bears are still not protected under the Endangered Species Act.

A decision on whether or not to classify polar bears as endangered - which would greatly affect the safety of their habitat - is expected this week.  And yet, tomorrow, the Bush administration may be selling oil and gas drilling leases in prime habitat to these fuzzy creatures.

Have your say in this important issue by contacting legislators via this petition, asking the administration to direct the Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately list polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act; abandon drilling plans in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and by scrapping plans to sell leasing rights to drill for oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi Sea.


Sign this simple petition today, sponsored by the Defenders Of Wildlife Action Fund and Care2.com.

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