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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
President Obama to Wayne Pacelle in a March 2016 exclusive interview “But we can also use the power of markets to promote conservation of our resources. As I noted before, the TPP will give us new tools to enhance protections of threatened marine species from harmful fishing practices and illegal fishing…and promote the long-term conservation of sharks, sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals like whales and polar bears.”
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/04/us-drops-ban-polar-bear-parts-tradeUS ceases efforts to end global trade of polar bear partsUS Fish and Wildlife Services to shift focus to climate change’s effects on bears, which Canada welcomes as it opposed ban as threats to hunting and Inuit practices