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	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pacific Wild&#8217;s Virtual Rainforest Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/936</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ What&#8217;s new: the Virtual Rainforest Initiative from www.pacificwild.org
This year, we are continuing to work with both the Bella Bella and Hartley Bay Community Schools to deliver live streaming video of remote wildlife behaviour into the classroom.
Students can monitor live streaming video, control the pan-tilt-zoom cameras, and save clips of interesting video for their own use. Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TLC&#8217;s Skeena, The Grizzly Travel Blogging Bear in B.C.</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/934</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Skeena – Our Newest Face at TLC
Skeena, TLC’s travel-blogging bear takes
a moment to enjoy the beauty of Fort Shepherd.Tour across the province with TLC’s official travel guide, Skeena the Grizzly Bear. Our travel-blogging bear has the enviable task of exploring B.C.’s special places and blogging about it for all to read.
“I am very excited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Response Team &#8220;Up Your Watershed&#8221; Song on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/933</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all Watershed Aficionados,
 
For a good time, please go to this YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0gHCWnWjxY 
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		<title>Victoria Researcher Gains Fame for Big-Shrink Theory,</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/932</link>
		<comments>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/932#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Black Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brown/Grizzly Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Threats to Bears]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Species extinction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Species Extirpation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[trophy fishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BY JUDITH LAVOIE, VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST, JANUARY 21, 2010

Predatory behaviour of humans is causing some species to shrink at an unprecedented rate, says a Victoria research scientist whose study has been deemed one of the top science stories of last year.
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		<title>There&#8217;s No Debate: Killing Bears is Immoral, BC Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/931</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-trophy hunting]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Great Bear Rainforest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[large carnivores]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[B.C.&#8217;s policy frameworks fail to take ethical issues into consideration BY CHRIS GENOVALI, SPECIAL TO TIMES COLONIST, JANUARY 21, 2010  
A new decade has dawned and in a few months yet another year of grizzly bearhunting will commence in British Columbia. The B.C. grizzly bear hunt has been a source of unrelenting controversy.Both sides are stuck in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seafood Watch Lauds Sustainable Salmon-Farming Method</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/930</link>
		<comments>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/930#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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The Pacific coho salmon produced by AquaSeed has been approved as sustainable by Seafood Watch. (Photo: Seafood Watch /AquaSeed Corp. )UNITED STATES 
Monday, January 18, 2010, 21:50 (GMT + 9) The Monterey Bay Aquarium&#8217;s Seafood Watch programme is approving a particular method for farming Pacific coho salmon developed by AquaSeed Corp.The Pacific coho salmon will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Faltering Light; Visual Petition&#8217; to Stop the Trophy Hunting of Bears in B.C.</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/927</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Simon Jackson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spirit Bear Youth Coalition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please sign new and unique petition that will make a difference:  http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/trophyhunt  
‘Faltering Light;Visual Petition’ Imagine Making a Difference for Bears in B.C. 
The ‘Faltering Light; Visual Petition’ will be published and presented as a high-quality book to Premier Campbell before the start of this year&#8217;s Spring Bear Hunt;
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		<title>Black Bear Death Tally Deemed &#8216;Atrocious&#8217; Calgary Herald News</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/923</link>
		<comments>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/923#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Black+bear+death+tally+deemed+atrocious/2425708/story.html Report says 449 killed by humans in mountain parks
 BY RICHARD CUTHBERTSON, CALGARY HERALDJANUARY 10, 2010  A landmark study into black bear deaths in Canada&#8217;s mountain national parks has found hundreds of the carnivores have been killed by human activity in the last two decades.The statistical report determined at least 449 black bears were killed by human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Hunter Charged in US with Gun Possession &#038; Trafficking in  Bear Parts</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/921</link>
		<comments>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/921#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010786260_bear14m.htmlOriginally published Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 3:12 PM
 Japanese hunter charged here with gun possession, smuggling bear organs

 A Japanese psychiatrist who travels the world as a big-game hunter was 
 charged in King County Superior Court Wednesday in connection with the 
 smuggling of black-bear gallbladders, popular in traditional Asian medicine.


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		<title>Ursa Freedom Project: Join Today to Help ALL 8 Species of Bears!</title>
		<link>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/920</link>
		<comments>http://www.bearmatters.com/archives/920#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barb</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Asiatic/Moon Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bear Rehabilitation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Black Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brown/Grizzly Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Giant Panda]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Polar Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Resource]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sloth Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Spectacled/Andean Bear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sun Bear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 





Ursa Freedom Projectinspiring collaboration for bear conservation


A message to all members of Ursa Freedom Project


  Hi Team -Ursa Freedom Project now has a Support Group for each bear species, where we can learn about people all over the world who are being inspired and motivated to save the species.  2010 is International Year of Biodiversity. There is no [...]]]></description>
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