Animal rights groups twisted facts in polar bear campaign

By Jonathan Charlton, The StarPhoenix:

 

Three-month-old twin polar bears snuggle to their 18-year-old mother Lala as they are shown to visitors for the first time at Maruyama Zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, March 22, 2013.

That’s the view of University of Saskatchewan professor Douglas Clark, of the School of Environment and Sustainability, after studying the campaign to ban all trade of polar bear products last year, alongside University of Exeter geographer Martina Tyrrell.
“Part of the reason polar bears have become such an uncontrollable symbol is because people have used information selectively, and there’s enough information and enough (uncertainty) about this — and most other environmental issues — that you can use good science to back up nearly any claim,” Clark said....Read more...