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BP guard shoots endangered polar bear in Alaska

BP is back in the bad books of environmentalists, after a security guard on one of its Alaskan oil fields shot a polar bear and staff then monitored the animal while it took 11 days to die

Authorities in Alaska have launched an official investigation, as polar bears are listed as threatened with extinction under the US Endangered Species Act and cannot be hunted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act…

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