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Thank You All! It Worked! McNeil River Bears are now safer.

From AKwildlife.com

Thank you for caring! You prevented trophy hunters from killing trusting wild bears. During the March, 2007, Board of Game meeting in Alaska, the board voted to reverse it's earlier decision to allow a hunt of the McNeil River and Katmai bears on land adjacent to the sanctuary!

If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to watch our "Don't Let Them Shoot McNeil River Bears" video posted on YouTube. The bears of McNeil River, and the nearby Katmai National Park, depended on you, and over 600 people wrote individual, handwritten letters to the Board of Game members in support of the bears! That is phenomenal! It is widely accepted that one individually written letter is worth at least 100 signatures on a petition, so that is equal to at least 60,000 petition signatures!

We needed your help. Even though many of you don't live in Alaska, or the United States, these are world famous bears and you had a right to speak up for them. AND YOU DID! We received letters of support from all over the globe.

We can't thank you enough!

For more information, see:

http://www.flixya.com/video/53412/Protecting_Alaskas_Brown_Bears (CBS_News) 

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/bears/story/8635357p-8527665c.html 

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/020707/sta_20070207020.shtml 

http://magazine.audubon.org/features0607/TravelAlaska.html 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/15/eveningnews/main1898409.shtml 

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1898467n 

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1898360n 

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