Watch this sickening video:
It’s heartbreaking to see something like this happening in this day and age, when we should have stricter laws protecting endangered and iconic animals such as these and when hunters, proving they are worse then their prey, should stop following their most barbaric instincts and hunt down animals just for fun.
Shockingly, it's still OK to hunt polar bears, as Brian reported in March. Back then, a proposed ban on the international trade of polar bear skins and parts was shot down at a United Nations Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species. The opposition at the CITES meeting was led by Canada. The United States pushed for the ban because (duh) international trade is damaging populations that are already endangered by habitat loss due to climate change.
The video is apparently from the Humane Society of the United States. The narrator says the footage comes from a commercial hunting video, and features American hunters tracking down and killing a polar bear on Canadian soil. "Yahoo!" one of them yells after their slaughter of the "beautiful, big polar bear." They pay up to $35,000 to kill one.
The video was recently posted at TrendHunter.com: Imagine if polar bear hunting becomes a trend. About 20,000 of the animals are left.
Heartbreaking.
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