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ZONE DE PROTECTION POUR LES PHOQUES EN ALASKA
The future of Alaska's ringed seals just got brighter. On Tuesday the feds proposed to protect more than 226 million acres of critical habitat for these ice seals, who are being hit hard by global warming. If finalized, the protected area -- more than twice the size of California -- would be the biggest critical habitat designation in history.
Ringed seals were protected under the Endangered Species Act in 2012 as a result of a Center for Biological Diversity petition. As the Arctic warms, the sea ice these seals rely on is breaking up earlier and snow caves are collapsing, killing their pups. The proposed habitat protections, set to be finalized in December 2015, would target Alaska's Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
"We're thrilled that ringed seals are getting the habitat protections they so desperately need as their sea-ice home melts beneath them," said the Center's Shaye Wolf. "Now the Obama administration needs to make these protections count by reducing the greenhouse gas pollution that's rapidly making the Arctic uninhabitable for ringed seals and other ice-dependent animals."
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