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Polar Bears Listed as Threatened

Polar bears have been added to the list of threatened species

(1) ____                                          [and it is predicted to continue to do so, that could allow some polar bear populat, and will receive special protection unde, if they don’t take immediate actions, that saving the polar bear, that the decline of Arctic sea ice, and helps to solve the problem, that human activity is directly responsi]______. In his statement,

In his statement, US Secretary of the

Interior Dirk Kempthorne noted (2) ____                                          [that the decline of Arctic sea ice, and helps to solve the problem, that human activity is directly responsi, that saving the polar bear, if they don’t take immediate actions, and will receive special protection unde, that could allow some polar bear populat, and it is predicted to continue to do so]______ ______is the greatest threat to the bears.

Polar bears live in the Arctic and hunt seals and other fatty

marine mammals from sea ice. They also travel, mate, and

sometimes give birth on the ice. But sea ice is melting as the

planet warms, (3)                                          [and it is predicted to continue to do so, that could allow some polar bear populat, and will receive special protection unde, if they don’t take immediate actions, that saving the polar bear, that the decline of Arctic sea ice, and helps to solve the problem, that human activity is directly responsi] __________ for several more decades.

Because polar bears are vulnerable to this loss of habitat,

they are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable

future, Kempthorne said.

Although many scientists say (4                                          [and it is predicted to continue to do so, that could allow some polar bear populat, and will receive special protection unde, if they don’t take immediate actions, that saving the polar bear, that the decline of Arctic sea ice, and helps to solve the problem, that human activity is directly responsi]) __________ for the

melting sea ice, the new polar bear protections will not

change U.S. climate policy.

Scott Bergen, a landscape ecologist, noted (5) __                                          [and it is predicted to continue to do so, that could allow some polar bear populat, and will receive special protection unde, if they don’t take immediate actions, that human activity is directly responsi, and helps to solve the problem, that the decline of Arctic sea ice, that saving the polar bear]_______

will depend on international cooperation. Permanent sea-ice

habitat is likely to remain in areas outside of the U.S.,

particularly in Canada and Greenland.

Scientists view these areas as refuges (6)                                          [and it is predicted to continue to do so, and will receive special protection unde, if they don’t take immediate actions, that saving the polar bear, that could allow some polar bear populat, that the decline of Arctic sea ice, and helps to solve the problem, that human activity is directly responsi] __________ over

the long term and repopulate the Arctic if temperatures

decrease and sea ice returns.