Some species needing help

COUNTING BEARS
With the decline of northern ice, there is a great fear that some species will be decimated. A polar bear census is in the works
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Canada is counting bears:
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The U.S. and Russia have agreed on a polar bear census:
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COD FISHING IN TROUBLE IN NORTH SEA

In the 1990's Canada banned commercial fishing for cod off its shores in the Great Banks and Georges Banks. Now, a similar suggestion is being made for the oceans off northern Europe.

Scientists urge ban on cod catch

A complete ban on North Sea cod fishing in 2007 is the main recommendation to European governments from their scientific advisors on fisheries.

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Ices) says stocks of cod, sandeel and anchovy remain below sustainable limits.

Ices has made the same recommendation on cod for the last four years, but ministers have gone against it.

ICES reports that stocks of cod are dropping to the level of non-sustainability.


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Arboretum reported earlier that the count of spotted owls in the American northwest shows a continued decline, especially in Washington State. Now we find that the fate of Canada's spotted owls is even more grim:

MINISTER DELIVERS DEATH SENTENCE FOR OWLS

August 25, 2006

One may be the loneliest number, but 17 is rapidly becoming one of the saddest. That's how many Northern Spotted Owls are left in Canada, and a recent decision by the federal environment minister all but guarantees that they will be the last of their kind in our country.

Logging has pushed the spotted owls into a few pockets of old-growth rainforest in southwestern British Columbia - and even these last vestiges of their homeland are on the chopping block. Earlier this year, environmental groups petitioned Rona Ambrose to intervene under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) and protect Canada's remaining owls. Last week, she declined.

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