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Environment I
climate The Antarctic T
->
Antarctica covers an area e about 14 milien km" ,
which -
An international agreement m

is about 1 4 times the size America
countries about
sustainably man
. .




->
it contains 90 % o Earth it is
about yet 3
->


all ice it has
the

on rules :


considered as a desert because it recieves 1166m/yr -


Antarctica should only be used f

er precipitation -
most g
which is
gover er
army bases
->
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.
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because it is
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specially adapted plats ad animals can
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scrive under the
specific conditions ->


is countries dor's abide to the really
-> The Antarctic is transition
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crea between He cold ad warn water where to the international cour o justice
there is a
upwelling a nutrient ich water .




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basis o the whole
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->
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up a
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-> However have criticised
campaigners
-
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uniform
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in the
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-> last so
years , He west coast has risen by 3°

->
warning has caused ice sheets to melt and drastically retreat
->
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->
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is the institution that
have died
main
gove
is responsible for reporting activit
kil declined 80 %
->



population has
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->
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programme in


for perquins so many have died of starvation
er Antarctic marine living resources (
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->

orear are to create stells

fishing and conserve tre Antarctic ecos
whaling
-




creas
->
ocears are
reeding grounds for 90 % I all whales
->
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effectiveness is
whaling highly profitable business-producers
->

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protesting their own interest es rega
or ,
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->
by the 1960s ,
the whale population had declined by de

90 % and species become endangered NOOS
->
->
wholes the southern protected NGOs believe
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whaling
in as



however Japa disagrees with mis which has created in 2018
, Japanese whales killed 3

social vensions research

fishing
-

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enoring rules



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->
of a
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they are in the rig
limits
fishing many species
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->

over threaters there are
so
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