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There are only around 26,000 polar bears left on earth. These bears are in a lot of trouble! Climate change severely threatens their survival by melting their world, starving them of food and making them sick. Despite this, up to 1,000 of polar bears are killed to be sold as skins and hunting trophies each year. Almost 53,500 polar bears died like this between 1963 and 2016 – that's more than twice today's global population. Canada is the only polar bear range state that not only allows the systematic killing of polar bears to export their body parts. In fact, Canada even promotes this trade, although for two decades, polar bear kill-quotas have largely been set against scientific advice for two decades. That's because essential information needed to assess whether Canada's polar bear quotas are sustainable are often missing, vastly out of date, unreliable or even being withheld.
Thousands of polar bears are shot every year to be reduced to rugs and trophies, while the world looks on and waits or even imports these items. Ending the trade in polar bear products is the single most important conservation action we can take for this imperilled species right now. But this cruel and unnecessary trade is still entirely legal. It simply has to stop, if polar bears are to have a chance of surviving. That's what we are fighting for. This requires a strong stand at the next UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). You can help to make this happen by urging CITES member states to ban the international trade in polar bear skins and trophies at their next meeting in November. Please sign our petition now and help protect polar bears! This action has become even more urgent since authorities in Canada announced plans to actively pursue a reduction of polar bear numbers.
Thousands of polar bears are shot every year to be reduced to rugs and trophies, while the world looks on and waits or even imports these items. Ending the trade in polar bear products is the single most important conservation action we can take for this imperilled species right now. But this cruel and unnecessary trade is still entirely legal. It simply has to stop, if polar bears are to have a chance of surviving. That's what we are fighting for. This requires a strong stand at the next UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). You can help to make this happen by urging CITES member states to ban the international trade in polar bear skins and trophies at their next meeting in November. Please sign our petition now and help protect polar bears! This action has become even more urgent since authorities in Canada announced plans to actively pursue a reduction of polar bear numbers.
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Polar bears can't protect themselves against the guns, pistols, crossbows and bows and arrows that are used to kill them for their skins or as hunting trophies. They need us and you to stand between them and the people who mean to harm them.
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