Walrus protection can wait: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Reuters

Walrus protection can wait: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Reuters:

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Wed Feb 9, 2011 9:30am EST
(Reuters)

"...The Pacific walrus, hampered by vanishing sea ice in Arctic waters, deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act but must wait in line behind more imperiled animals, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman said on Tuesday.

The decision dashed environmentalists' hopes that the lumbering, long-tusked marine mammal would soon join the polar bear as a federally protected icon of global warming."

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