Canada's environment ministry has declared the polar bear to be a "species of special concern". The 10 November decision means that a management plan to protect the species must be produced within three years. Around two-thirds of the world's polar bears live in Canada. The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental campaign group based in Tucson, Arizona, complained that the bear should have been listed as 'threatened' or endangered', which would have prohibited some types of hunting and established a protected 'critical habitat'.
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