QATAR: A plan to outlaw the trade of skins, claws and teeth of polar bears was rejected at a UN meeting yesterday. The US-backed plan was turned down at the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species because a ban would affect indigenous peoples' economies and the trade does not pose a big threat to bear numbers. Canada, Norway and Greenland led the opposition to the proposal. Washington argued the trade was compounding the loss of the animals' habitat due to climate change.
http://e-edition.metroherald.ie/2010/03/19/ - p14.
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