24.10.2013 - 00:56 [ NPR ]

Delegates To Debate Watered-Down Plan For Antarctic Marine Preserve

„Last year I sailed through the Ross Sea,“ Zuur said at a news conference Wednesday in Hobart, Australia. „I saw dozens of whales, hundreds of seals and albatrosses and thousands of penguins. And that was just the wildlife on top of the water. The wildlife on the seafloor rivals that of the tropics. This area is really the Serengeti of the southern seas.“