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Save the Arctic : ウィキペディア英語版 | Save the Arctic Save the Arctic is a Greenpeace campaign to protect the Arctic, principally by preventing oil drilling and industrial fishing in the area completely, surrounded by an Arctic-Environmental economics-Zone. The campaign, begun in 2012, calls for a sanctuary in the Arctic region, similar to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/history/Victories-timeline/Antarctic-Treaty/ )〕 The campaign aims to begin this process by prompting a United Nations resolution on protection for the Arctic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.savethearctic.org/en/pages/faq )〕 ==Background==
The Arctic may contain around 20% of the world's remaining undiscovered oil and gas resources.〔 As most easily extractable fossil fuel reserves have been exploited, and the Arctic ice pack shrinks, governments and oil companies have begun to look for new resources in the Arctic. Given these possible threats, in 2008 the European Parliament proposed opening negotiations on a treaty to protect the Arctic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P6-TA-2008-0474&language=EN )〕
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