Comments on: The Slow Revival of America’s Grizzlies http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/the-slow-revival-of-americas-grizzlies/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: guang http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/the-slow-revival-of-americas-grizzlies/comment-page-1/#comment-13061 guang Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:52:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=49403#comment-13061 Ursus arctos is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the worldwide accepted authority on listing of species according to their relative danger of extinction as a “species of least concern” that is the very lowest rating they have. 

Yes grizzlies are beautiful animals, yes they reproduce extremely slowly, but no, they are not truly endangered, and under today’s ESA they never would have been listed as there are hundreds of thousands of brown bears worldwide.

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