Drive for global action to save Antarctica

INTERNATIONAL action is urgently needed to protect Antarctica, environmentalists warned today.

Drive for global action to save Antarctica

The WWF global conservation organisation said the world’s last great wilderness was under threat from climate change, unsustainable fishing and the spread of non-native species.

The charity is demanding marine-protected areas to cover millions of square kilometres of the Southern Ocean by 2012, to help conserve fish, seabird and marine animal populations.

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