<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/de26728e-bdab-4d88-83b0-c862d6f48a86/AB551A1B-98BF-4A71-B5DC-17163DECF67D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/us_moves_to_protect_polar_bear.html" href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/us_moves_to_protect_polar_bear.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.nature.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/us_moves_to_protect_polar_bear.html"><h3 id="AutoGeneratedID-0">US moves to protect polar bear habitat�-�October 23, 2009</h3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/us_moves_to_protect_polar_bear.html"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-1"><img width="273" height="187" align="right" src="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/polar.bear.jpg" alt="polar.bear.jpg" />Over 200,000 square miles (520,000 sq km) of Alaskan territory could be designated ‘critical habitat’ for polar bears, under <a href="http://alaska.fws.gov/fisheries/mmm/polarbear/pdf/PolarBearPropCH.pdf">new proposals</a> from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This is the largest area ever proposed for such a designation by the FWS</p></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/us_moves_to_protect_polar_bear.html"><p id="AutoGeneratedID-2">If the land is designated as critical habitat any “destruction or adverse modification” of it will be prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. This would apply to oil and gas exploration activities which are currently underway in the area says the FWS.</p></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/us_moves_to_protect_polar_bear.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.nature.com/img/3359E87E-4331-4941-95DB-D28958CE0469" alt="polar.bear.jpg" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AB551A1B-98BF-4A71-B5DC-17163DECF67D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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