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Polar bears will be protected in Alaska
The US government says land that oil and gas
companies want to drill in Alaska is a crucial home for
polar bears. Environmentalists hope this announcement
will help save the endangered animals.
[5] Right now in an icy den in the Arctic, a polar bear
is giving birth to cubs, or is about to. But the very survival
of this fearsome, majestic species concerns many
humans.
Polar bears live and hunt on sea ice, but the frozen
[10] Arctic Ocean is melting at an increasing rate, a result,
scientists say, of global warming caused by greenhouse
gases.
Now the US government has designated nearly
500,000 km2 in Alaska as critical habitats for the polar
[15] bear. It covers an area of roughly twice the size of the
United Kingdom, and it means any proposed economic
activity there, must be weighed against its impact on
the bears’ habitat. It includes some of the Chukchi and
Beaufort Seas, exactly where the oil company, Shell,
[20] wants to drill.
The designation itself doesn’t ban oil exploration,
but it adds extra obstacles that opponents say will harm
the economy. Environmentalists welcome the move,
saying now they can write a recovery plan for polar bears,
[25] not an obituary.
MIRCHANDANI, Rajesh. Polar bears will be protected in Alaska. Disponível em:<. Acesso em: 2 dez. 2010.
About the polar bear reserve in Alaska, it’s correct to say that
( ) it has about half a million square kilometers.
( ) it’s almost double the size of the United Kingdom’s territory.
( ) oil exploration will definitely be forbidden there.
( ) it has been suffering the bad effects of the increase in temperature around the world.
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