The polar bear attacked the BSES campsite, near the Von Post glacier, about 25 miles (40km) from Longyearbyen.
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Essentially, the administration is giving a gift to Big Oil, and short shrift to the polar bear.
Mr Blaszkiewitz said the polar bear may be preserved and displayed at Berlin's Natural History Museum, DPA reports.
The polar bear, for instance, is now successfully promoting the danger to Arctic wildlife posed by global warming.
The polar bear - with its "strength, courage, resourcefulness and dignity" - would be a better fit, she argued.
As the planet warms, thanks to our gas-guzzling cars and power-producing factories, the polar bear's frozen habitat is disappearing.
The polar bear is the most unique creature in the Arctic, but it is also an animal to be respected.
Jason Roberts was making The Polar Bear Family and Me, in which bears were filmed from a clear plastic hide.
Mr Qillaq, who chairs the Kanngiqtugaapik Hunters and Trappers Organisation, laughs at the notion that hunting will harm the polar bear population.
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The Bush administration was supposed to make a decision on the status of the polar bear by January 9 of this year.
The Center has petitioned the US to list the polar bear as an endangered species, which would oblige the government to protect it.
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The beaver is no longer fit to be Canada's national emblem, and should be replaced with the polar bear, a Conservative senator says.
Then there's the polar bear, which Interior Secretary Kempthorne announced in May he was listing as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Knut the polar bear, who became world famous after he was hand-reared by keepers after his mother rejected him, has died at the age of four.
"We don't have any substantial records that the oil and gas exploration have created an issue for the polar bear, " said Dale Hall, director of Fish and Wildlife.
The polar bear, who was raised by humans in the Berlin Zoo after being rejected by his mother, was once so famous he graced the cover of Vanity Fair.
Obviously the Arctic Ocean was nearly or completely ice-free at the end of summer for centuries or even millennia, and still the polar bear survived and the Inuit culture radiated.
Terry Audla, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said he was very proud and happy that the international community had agreed that the way the Inuit manage the polar bear is working.
"The polar bear does not have a small wild population, it does not have a restricted area of distribution and no marked decline has been observed, " Environment Canada says on its website.
Walking by a fast-moving creek on the property, the 60-year-old Duluth native pointed out where the polar bear, Berlin, sought to escape rising water by moving to higher ground outside his cage.
The polar bear is certainly mentioned as being vulnerable to habitat loss caused by global warming, but again, the polar bear is not included in this study of mammals of (sub)arctic Europe.
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While some of its effects are inevitable (some polar bear habitat absolutely will be lost, Derocher said), there are longer-term solutions that could help save some of the polar-bear-ness of the polar bear.
"Had the polar bear been listed prior to January 9 as the law required, that lease sale could not have moved forward without some substantial additional review of the impacts to polar bears, " said Siegel.
Gripping the ice with his sharp claws, the polar bear leaned over the edge of the ice, sniffing the air and taking in the foreign scent of the 50 sweaty, sunburnt tourists, expedition leaders and crew.
And for the rest of the world to suggest that how we manage the polar bear is not right is a slap in the face - but the decision that was made today shows we are doing the right thing.
"After years of delay, the Bush administration was forced to face the reality that global warming has endangered the polar bear and that the polar bear needs to be placed on the Endangered Species Act, " said Markey in a statement to CNN.
Even as she professed her affection for them, Palin had, in early August, filed suit against Dirk Kempthorne, the United States Secretary of the Interior, seeking to reverse his decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service must now decide whether to list the polar bear as endangered, or to put it in a lesser category of risk such as threatened, or to keep it off the list entirely - an option which would immediately lead to further legal action from the conservation coalition.
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