Polar Bears - Top 3 New Stories This Week
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Here are the top 3 news stories this past week:
Knut’s zoo embroiled in animal slaughter scandal
The Berlin Zoo director who helped turn Germany’s rejected polar bear, Knut, into an international celebrity has been put under pressure to resign amid allegations that he had bred and sold animals for slaughter. Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, the director of two of Berlin’s prestigious zoos, was accused by a Green Party politician and animal rights experts of selling a pygmy hippopotamus and a family of Asiatic black bears for slaughter in two separate deals conducted in the early 1990s.
Boxer Replies to Kempthorne’s Failure to Confirm Appearance Before Polar Bear Committee
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following letter in response to Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne’s failure to confirm his appearance at an April hearing regarding the polar bear listing under the Endangered Species Act.
Complete text of Senator Boxer’s letter follows:
Nuremberg’s zoo readies for mass interest in polar bear cub Flocke’s debut
BERLIN: The Nuremberg Zoo is preparing for an influx of ursine enthusiasts when polar bear cub Flocke makes her public debut next month. The fluffy white cub — now 3 months old — has become as famous in Germany as her hand-raised predecessor, Knut.
Flocke All Worn Out
Bear hugs, Frankie
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