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Polar bears are the 'poster-beast' of climate change, but the Independent's Jerome Taylor reports that you can actually in the Canadian Arctic - the only place where hunting the big white bear is still a 'trophy sport'. You can even take the hide home if you have the right paperwork.

Bearing in mind that the polar bear has just , the idea of 'kill quotas' for polar bears seems at odds with conservation efforts.

This is a theme picked up by :

"... at most ... 15 bears could be saved this year if we could stop global warming right now ... The Kyoto Protocol will cost $180 billion, yet will not affect temperatures by very much: it would probably save .06 of one bear each year. There are smarter alternatives. Hunters shoot between 300 and 500 polar bears each year ... Surely it makes more sense to save 300 to 500 polar bears at virtually no cost than it does to spend hundreds of billions of dollars saving just one."

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