Photo from the National Sierra Club.

Earlier this year President Obama announced that the U.S will propose a ban on the global trafficking in polar bear parts at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in March 2013. However, key European countries, including the UK, are still on the fence about stronger polar bear protection. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) asks us all to send a message to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to lead the European Union to a Yes vote on the US and Russian proposal.