SYDNEY (AFP) - an ice carving huge of a polar bear designed to raise awareness on global warming and the fate of the endangered creature was unveiled in Sydney.
An impressive four metres (13 feet) high and 2.2 metres wide, the bear was carved from a block of ten tons of ice on harbourfront of the city and will melt over a period of three to four days, revealing a sculpture in bronze of his skeleton.
Now on its sixth global stop since launched by the British artist Mark Coreth in 2009, bear was reduced to form in the hours before dawn, after a giant crane fell to the ice near the port.
Bypassers can pay Aus$ 2 to touch the creature, feeling "the ice melt in your hand", said Coreth, who hopes to raise awareness on climate change and its effects on the bear, an endangered species.
"It is the human impact," he said.
"When ice ice bear, there will always be a bear, but it will be very different bears." It will be a skeleton, a pool of water and a powerful message. ?
Aurora expeditions, one of the local sponsors of the project, said temperatures in the Arctic have increased each year to nearly twice the rate of anywhere else, causing the melting of sea ice - bears habitat polar and other animals.
Funds raised will go to the World Wildlife Fund, Australian Youth Climate Coalition and a Million women, a campaign 'girls, sisters of mothers and grandmothers' work to reduce carbon pollution.
Ice bears appeared already in Copenhagen, London, Montreal, Toronto and Manchester.
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