Video: Polar bears in the waters of the River Thames
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
One early January morning, a huge block of ice appeared on the River Thames in London, with polar bears sitting on it. Two creatures in snow-white fur coats, a mother and her cub, swim on an iceberg and ask people to pay attention to the problem of the environment, more precisely, to the problem of global warming.
The giant 16-foot statue of polar bears is part of a project to launch the UK's new science fiction channel, Eden, and to raise public awareness of climate change. A team of 15 sculptors worked for two months to make the 1.5 ton statue and place it on the Thames in front of Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.
Announcer and wildlife conservationist Sir David Attenborough says: “The melting glaciers where polar bears live is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. I have recommended that Eden bring up this topic; we must do everything in our power to protect the world's largest carnivores from extinction."
After sailing in the waters of the Thames, the statue from London will travel to other cities in the UK, including Birmingham and Glasgow, to further draw people's attention to the problem of global warming and the extinction of polar bears.
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