Group seeks protection for walrus under Endangered Species Act

Here.

Excerpt:

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list walruses as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because of warming and its effect on sea ice used by the animals as a feeding and resting platform.
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"The Arctic is in crisis from global warming," said Shaye Wolf, lead author of the petition and a biologist with the conservation group. "Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a stunning rate that vastly exceeds the predictions of the best climate models."

Hmmm. Are they talking about the walruses that have recently been seen in herds of up to 100,000? And are they talking about this sea ice?

Update: Check out this from the conservation group's press release:

“With rapid action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, combined with a moratorium on new oil and gas development and shipping routes in the Arctic, we can still save the Pacific walrus, the polar bear, and the Arctic ecosystem,” added Wolf. “But the window of opportunity to act is closing rapidly.”

The Pacific walrus joins a growing list of species for which the Center for Biological Diversity has sought Endangered Species Act protection due to global warming. The Center filed petitions for the Kittlitz’s murrelet in 2001, the staghorn and elkhorn corals in the Caribbean in 2004, the polar bear in 2005, 12 of the world’s penguin species in 2006, and the American pika and the ribbon seal in 2007.