Reuters March 18, 2009
OSLO - An international plan is needed to rescue polar bears and their icy Arctic habitat but its success will hinge on a U.N. deal to fight global warming due to be agreed in December, Norway said on Tuesday.
"Climate change has overtaken hunting as the most significant threat to the polar bear," Norway's Environment and Development Minister Erik Solheim told a meeting of the five states rimming the Arctic where the white bears live.
"We must work to protect the ecosystem the bear is part of," Solheim said. "Global warming must be stopped if we are to succeed."
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