NewsCloud Founder Announces Support of Polar Bear Relocation

In a private email to NewsCloud members today, NewsCloud's founder put his support behind efforts to relocate polar bears to Antarctica:

One of the groups I've been supporting since the NewsCloud acquisition is the Polar Bear Conservancy . Yesterday, PBC announced that it plans to move the first of 3,000 polar bears to Antarctica on Earth Day, April 22.

Scientists say polar bears face near-certain extinction by 2020 as global climate change accelerates melting of their habitat in the Northern Arctic (just last week a polar bear was found and shot 250
miles inland in the Yukon )... Antarctica, in contrast, can be a viable home for the bears.
Though experiencing melting of its own, the southernmost continent still has sufficient ice coverage to support the polar bear indefinitely in its traditional climate, and it has abundant food
stocks, including penguins, seals, dolphins, and migratory whales.

You can read yesterday's press release and media event with McCain or Grist's coverage. The PBC folks have a tremendously creative and ambitious team. It's been a privilege to be a part of their efforts in some small way.