UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LEVEL 4, 2018-2

Ticket in Week 8: Environmental Issues at a Foreign Natural Place

Names: Juan Diego Chalarca Robayo

With the information researched, please complete the following information:

Name of the Natural Place Assigned: ALASKA

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1. Describe an environmental issue in the place.

Due to the main problem that occurs in Alaska (where the Arctic lands are melting due to global
warming), every day the temperature increases in this place and the animals that live there are
losing their natural habitat and therefore their life too.

2. Talk about environmental organizations that are looking for a solution there.

Alaska Wildlife Alliance. The Alaska Wildlife Alliance (AWA) advocates for healthy ecoystems,
wildlife, and habitat in Alaska. Working to reform wildlife public policy, they focus on predator
control, hunting and trapping regulations, marine mammal issues, impacts of commercial use of
wildlife, development impacts, public participation in wildlife policy, and public education
regarding Alaskan wildlife.

The Nature Conservancy — Alaska. Since 1988, The Nature Conservancy has used science to
help safeguard Alaska’s lands and waters for nature and people. They protect and restore salmon
habitat in Bristol Bay, Matanuska-Susitna Basin, and in the Tongass. The Conservancy has also
helped to create the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, the Palmer Hay Flats State Game Refuge, and the
Gustavus Forelands Preserve.

Alaska Sealife Center. The Alaska Sealife Center is the only public aquarium and ocean wildlife
rescue center in Alaska. Between exhibits, education, and rehabilitation, they are one of the only
non-profit organizations in the world that has both a public aquarium and fully-supported research
facility in the same building. With state-of-the-art laboratories, aquarium animals that participate in
research, and extensive field work, the Alaska SeaLife Center has
quickly become the cold-water research facility in the United States.
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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
LEVEL 4, 2018-2

3. Compare the natural place (before and after)

Alaska used to have the lack of
vegetation on the slopes of the
mountains, and the glacier that stands
more than 300 feet high.
Now, Alaska has the lack of floating
ice and the abundant vegetation on
many slopes.

4. Suggest the best solution for this problem.

The scientific premise of Eduardo Gold is very simple: if the dark mountains absorb more heat from
the sun, the white mountains will have the opposite effect. The solution, then, is to make them
white.
After covering the rocks, Eduardo checked with an infrared thermometer that there was a difference
of 16 degrees between the black rocks and the bleached ones. The locals will assure that they have
found ice where there was not before.
So, our solution is to promote campaigns of painting the rocks in white.

Bibliography

Huff, S. (2015). 11 Organizations fighting to protect wildlife in Alaska. [online] Matador Network.
Available at: https://matadornetwork.com/life/11-organizations-fighting-protect-wildlife-alaska/
[Accessed 20 Sep. 2018].

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