US won’t support trade ban on polar bear products

(Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)The United States recently announced it will not support aninternational ban on the trade of polar bear products at an upcomingmeeting on endangered species.
In a statement released last week, the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service says it remains concerned about the commercialuse of polar bear hides, but it says it won’t encourage the ban.
The agency says in a statement it will instead focus on mitigating climate change impacts to polar bears as the largest