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					<title>As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/as-yellow-eyed-penguins-disappear-conservationists-focus-on-deaths-in-fishing-nets/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Sep 2026 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[New Zealand, Oceania, Pacific Islands, and Polynesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Fishing, Governance, Islands, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Penguins, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[OTAGO PENINSULA, Aotearoa New Zealand — Sandfly Bay was long a key nesting area for yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes), noisy, pink-footed birds that spend long days foraging at sea. But this wild beach on the Otago Peninsula, like others nearby, has gone quiet. In 2024, the last breeding-age female at Sandfly Bay, who’d been consistently [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[OTAGO PENINSULA, Aotearoa New Zealand — Sandfly Bay was long a key nesting area for yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes), noisy, pink-footed birds that spend long days foraging at sea. But this wild beach on the Otago Peninsula, like others nearby, has gone quiet. In 2024, the last breeding-age female at Sandfly Bay, who’d been consistently producing chicks for a dozen years, drowned in a fishing net. Fishing has been one of many factors driving the species, which is only found in Aotearoa New Zealand, toward extinction. In the 2008-2009 breeding season, there were 739 breeding pairs in the “mainland” New Zealand population, which includes pairs on nearby islands. But the population has dropped since then to 117 pairs — a decline of more than 80%. These figures don’t account for yellow-eyed penguins on New Zealand’s remote southern islands, which are poorly surveyed. The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, listed the species as endangered in its last assessment, in 2020, when the mainland population was still twice what it is now. Several experts told Mongabay that the species’ chances of survival are slim, though most said they still had faith. “I think I’d always like to say that there’s hope because otherwise why do you do what you do, but things are pretty dire,” Trudi Webster, a marine scientist who’s worked on research and conservation of the species for the past decade, told Mongabay. A number of organizations are working to save the yellow-eyed penguin, and much of the conservation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/as-yellow-eyed-penguins-disappear-conservationists-focus-on-deaths-in-fishing-nets/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-331013</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Antarctic krill fishery closes months early amid increasing fishing pressure</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/antarctic-krill-fishery-closes-months-early-amid-increasing-fishing-pressure/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Aug 2026 14:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Francesco De Augustinis]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cetaceans, Conservation, Dolphins, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Law, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Penguins, Seabirds, and Whales]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Aug. 12, for the second year in a row, the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean closed early after reaching its annual catch limit of 620,000 metric tons. This precautionary quota is intended to prevent overfishing from affecting populations of this shrimp-like crustacean, which forms the base of the region’s food chain. The fishery’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Aug. 12, for the second year in a row, the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean closed early after reaching its annual catch limit of 620,000 metric tons. This precautionary quota is intended to prevent overfishing from affecting populations of this shrimp-like crustacean, which forms the base of the region’s food chain. The fishery’s early closure was confirmed by scientists attending the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference, held in Oslo, Norway, from Aug. 10 to 14, 2026. “The fishery has closed early (before the end of November) because it has already caught 620,000t of krill,” Simeon Hill, marine and fisheries ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey, told Mongabay in an email. Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) can grow up to 6 centimeters (2.4 inches) long and live predominantly in schools. The species forms the basis of the diets of a large proportion of wildlife populations in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, including seals, whales, penguins, seabirds, fish and squid. In the last two decades, krill has attracted growing commercial interest owing to its use in aquaculture feed, pet food and omega-3 supplements for human consumption. The early closure of the fishery is linked to the growth of the fishing fleets targeting krill, as well as to the concentration of fishing activities in areas where krill is most abundant. These areas also coincide with the main feeding grounds of wildlife populations, raising concerns about the potential negative impact of this industry on the ecosystem. Antarctic krill (Euphausia&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/antarctic-krill-fishery-closes-months-early-amid-increasing-fishing-pressure/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-327086</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Peru’s only penguin species at risk from upcoming El Niño and bird flu, experts warn</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/perus-only-penguin-species-at-risk-from-upcoming-el-nino-and-bird-flu-experts-warn/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Jul 2026 11:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dan Collyns]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Science, Conservation, El Nino, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine Conservation, Penguins, Research, Science, Seabirds, Wildlife, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — First, there was the H5N1 avian influenza of 2022, then El Niño arrived in 2023, disrupting coastal waters and fish availability. For Peru’s Humboldt penguins, the only species of penguins that breeds in the country, the burden was too heavy: Its population dropped by two-thirds between 2022 and 2025. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — First, there was the H5N1 avian influenza of 2022, then El Niño arrived in 2023, disrupting coastal waters and fish availability. For Peru’s Humboldt penguins, the only species of penguins that breeds in the country, the burden was too heavy: Its population dropped by two-thirds between 2022 and 2025. Still recovering, the species is now facing a super El Niño that could further undermine its future. In early June, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, warned: “The science is clear: El Niño is arriving on our doorstep in the coming months with 90% certainty. The world must treat it as the urgent climate warning it is. El Niño conditions will pour fuel on the fire of a warming world. Impacts will hit even harder, travel even farther, and cross borders with devastating speed.” Scientists studying the Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) in Peru say that they are already feeling the impact of the 2026 El Niño as warmer coastal waters drive the cold current carrying the main prey fish, Peruvian anchovy (Engraulis ringens) or anchoveta, deeper and further offshore. That means the penguins and other seabirds are forced to undertake longer fishing trips to get enough food to breed or feed chicks. Scientists studying El Niño say the gaps between the events are getting smaller and the effects are more unpredictable. “Climate change is driving more frequent and more severe El Niño events,” Andres Lescano, director of Clima, the Latin American Center of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/perus-only-penguin-species-at-risk-from-upcoming-el-nino-and-bird-flu-experts-warn/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-323856</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A year on, Australia’s biggest harmful algal bloom continues to wreak havoc</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/a-year-on-australias-biggest-harmful-algal-bloom-continues-to-wreak-havoc/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jun 2026 18:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Nick Rodway]]>
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						<![CDATA[Autumn Spanne]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia]]>
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							<![CDATA[algae, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Citizen Science, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Dolphins, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Governance, Habitat, Health, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Monitoring, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Penguins, Rays, Research, Sharks, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORT HUGHES, Australia — Situated midway along the Great Southern Reef that spans Australia’s southern coastline, the waters off Port Hughes typically teem with life. The coastal hamlet northwest of Adelaide plays host to a multitude of coral, bivalve and fish species. But in late March, the largest and longest harmful algal bloom (HAB) in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PORT HUGHES, Australia — Situated midway along the Great Southern Reef that spans Australia’s southern coastline, the waters off Port Hughes typically teem with life. The coastal hamlet northwest of Adelaide plays host to a multitude of coral, bivalve and fish species. But in late March, the largest and longest harmful algal bloom (HAB) in Australian history arrived to Port Hughes, depleting its waters’ rich biodiversity. The bloom had first appeared elsewhere off the state of South Australia’s coast a year earlier, causing eye and skin irritation and respiratory symptoms among beachgoers. Then, along with waves of acrid-smelling sea foam, scores of dead marine animals began washing ashore. In Port Hughes, the HAB’s impacts were most visible below the surface. The town’s wooden jetty had previously been one of the most consistent locations in South Australia to observe temperate species, said Stefan Andrews, co-founder of the Great Southern Reef Foundation, a conservation advocacy group. But by mid-April, when Mongabay joined Andrews on a dive, the site was drab compared with vibrant photographs taken in February and March. Under the jetty, sponges and corals that had previously adorned its pylons in a brilliantly hued mosaic appeared colorless. Apart from a short-headed seahorse (Hippocampus breviceps) — a “sign of hope,” Andrews called it — little life was visible in the murky waters. The reef, he said, had become quieter, lacking the sounds of snapping shrimp and other creatures that once played in the underwater soundtrack. “There’s a sense of loss when you&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/a-year-on-australias-biggest-harmful-algal-bloom-continues-to-wreak-havoc/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320708</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The Southern Ocean is key to our planet&#8217;s future &#038; we have a chance to protect it this year (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-southern-ocean-is-key-to-our-planets-future-we-have-a-chance-to-protect-it-this-year-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 May 2026 16:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Zac Goldsmith]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Certification, Commentary, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Penguins, Sustainability, and Whales]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the most striking images in David Attenborough&#8217;s Ocean, his defining 2025 documentary, is of supertrawlers dragging vast krill nets through a pod of feeding humpback whales off Antarctica. For most viewers, it will have been the moment a distant and invisible crisis became viscerally real. But it was also something else: a glimpse [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the most striking images in David Attenborough&#8217;s Ocean, his defining 2025 documentary, is of supertrawlers dragging vast krill nets through a pod of feeding humpback whales off Antarctica. For most viewers, it will have been the moment a distant and invisible crisis became viscerally real. But it was also something else: a glimpse of what is at stake if we fail to act, and a reminder of how little time we have left to protect some of our planet’s most precious resources. The Southern Ocean is not simply another stretch of water in need of protection. It is the engine of the global climate system, and one of the last places on Earth where nature still operates on its own terms. Right now, it is in serious trouble. The Antarctic Peninsula is home to roughly a third of the global krill population, which sustains whales, penguins, seals and seabirds. But three consecutive years of record-low sea ice have disrupted the reproduction cycles that krill depend on, and last year the krill fishery hit its 620,000-metric-ton catch limit for the first time in history, closing three months early. Industrial fleets from Norway, China, South Korea, Chile and Ukraine are extracting them at a pace that the ecosystem, already stressed by climate change, cannot absorb. The Marine Stewardship Council&#8217;s recent decision to recertify the Antarctic krill fishery as &#8220;sustainable,&#8221; despite an outdated stock assessment and mounting evidence of localized harm to whale and penguin populations, has rightly drawn legal challenge.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-southern-ocean-is-key-to-our-planets-future-we-have-a-chance-to-protect-it-this-year-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-319355</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Accidental discovery reveals new climate threat to emperor penguins</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/accidental-discovery-reveals-new-climate-threat-to-emperor-penguins/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Mar 2026 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, data, Environment, Global Warming, Penguins, Remote Sensing, Sea Ice, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to discover new locations in Antarctica where the birds go to shed and replace their feathers every year, an event known as molting. However, they also found that these molting sites might have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to discover new locations in Antarctica where the birds go to shed and replace their feathers every year, an event known as molting. However, they also found that these molting sites might have melted from under the penguins, potentially causing fatalities. Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), native to Antarctica, are the biggest of the penguin species. Since they heavily rely on sea ice for their survival, global warming is one of the major threats to their existence. A 2021 study estimated that the birds could lose 98% of their colonies and become “quasi-extinct” by the end of the century if sea ice continues to decline at projected rates. Every year, around late January, emperor penguins move to stable sea ice attached to a coastline to molt. It&#8217;s a life stage that scientists dub &#8220;catastrophic molting” because, unlike other animals, penguins shed all their feathers at once. Molting, however, is a vulnerable life stage. For one, the process of shedding and growing new plumage consumes a lot of energy. Over the four to five weeks of molting, the birds also lose 40-50% of their body weight. “Because the penguin is not waterproof during that period, they can&#8217;t go out into the sea to forage and hunt,” Peter Fretwell, senior geographic and remote-sensing scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, who discovered the new molting sites, told Mongabay in a video interview.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/accidental-discovery-reveals-new-climate-threat-to-emperor-penguins/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-315816</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Penguins are breeding much earlier in a warming Antarctic, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Feb 2026 17:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biology, Birds, cameras, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Global Warming, Ocean Warming, Penguins, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands. They tracked their ‘settlement date’: when the penguins began continuously occupying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands. They tracked their ‘settlement date’: when the penguins began continuously occupying their nesting zones. The study, led by the citizen-science collective Penguin Watch at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, U.K., was published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Over that 10-year period, gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) began their breeding season an average of 13 days earlier in the year, though for some colonies, it was more than three weeks. Chinstrap (P. antarcticus) and Adélie (P. adeliae) penguins settled into their colonies an average of 10.4 and 10.2 days, respectively, ahead of their schedule a decade ago. These breeding changes are amongst the most extreme yet recorded for any bird — and likely any vertebrate — in response to climate change, the study notes. “This is a huge advance and an incredibly fast one … and that&#8217;s what surprised us,” says Ignacio Juarez Martínez, a biologist and the study’s lead author who conducted the research as part of his PhD at the University of Oxford. “It&#8217;s literally a world record.” Gentoo colony at Neko Harbour, on the Antarctic peninsula. Gentoo penguins are the least ice-tolerant of the three species studied — which also included Adélie and chinstrap penguins. They are expanding their range southwards&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-313994</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Abandoning Antarctic krill management measure threatens conservation progress (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/abandoning-antarctic-krill-management-measure-threatens-conservation-progress-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/abandoning-antarctic-krill-management-measure-threatens-conservation-progress-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Oct 2025 14:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andrea CapurroMary-Anne Lea]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Commentary, Ecosystems, Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Oceans, Overfishing, Penguins, and Whales]]>
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							<![CDATA[All along the western Antarctic Peninsula, whales, penguins and seals in their millions depend on krill (Euphausia superba) throughout the year. In the most rapidly warming region on the continent, they are now facing an additional and unprecedented threat. For the first time in 15 years, industrial vessels may undertake increased and more concentrated fishing [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[All along the western Antarctic Peninsula, whales, penguins and seals in their millions depend on krill (Euphausia superba) throughout the year. In the most rapidly warming region on the continent, they are now facing an additional and unprecedented threat. For the first time in 15 years, industrial vessels may undertake increased and more concentrated fishing for krill in this region. The record catch limit was reached this past August, triggering an unparalleled early closure of the fishery. This change comes after the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), the multilateral body responsible for conserving marine species in the Southern Ocean, allowed a critical conservation measure (CM 51-07) to lapse in 2024, removing precautionary regulations that previously distributed catches across the region to reduce direct competition between the fishery and krill-dependent predators. While this new scenario doesn’t technically break any rules, this may be precisely the problem. Fishing within catch limits may still risk adversely affecting krill-dependent predator populations. The cascading ecological consequences can be widespread, while the precautionary principles that guide CCAMLR are put to the test. Antarctic krill are the cornerstone species of the Southern Ocean; they are the primary food source for a suite of species and provide important contributions to the global carbon cycle. They are so important that they inspired a pioneering conservation mandate, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (also CCAMLR). Unlike traditional fisheries that maximize harvest, the CCAMLR embedded the ecosystem-based approach in its foundational text&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/abandoning-antarctic-krill-management-measure-threatens-conservation-progress-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307412</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Caracal, meet penguin: How humans pushed unlikely predator and prey together</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/caracal-meet-penguin-how-humans-pushed-unlikely-predator-and-prey-together/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/caracal-meet-penguin-how-humans-pushed-unlikely-predator-and-prey-together/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Oct 2024 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Petro Kotzé]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=288233</guid>

					
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Cats, Conservation, Environment, Human-wildlife Conflict, Penguins, Predators, Small Cats, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[CAPE TOWN — The sharp pop of an air gun echoes through the forested flanks of Constantia as volunteers herd a raiding troop of baboons away from the affluent Cape Town suburb that blossomed in their historic stomping grounds. The Cape baboons (Papio ursinus) play an important ecological role, but with easy access to calorie-rich [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CAPE TOWN — The sharp pop of an air gun echoes through the forested flanks of Constantia as volunteers herd a raiding troop of baboons away from the affluent Cape Town suburb that blossomed in their historic stomping grounds. The Cape baboons (Papio ursinus) play an important ecological role, but with easy access to calorie-rich human food and no natural predators left, the population ballooned. It now clashes regularly with the city’s frustrated human residents. The city is part of a “complex” system, says Gabriella Leighton, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cape Town,. Almost 5 million people live here, but South Africa’s second most populous city is also part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, a global biodiversity hotspot. As the impacts of centuries of human-induced change ricochet through the system, altercations are unavoidable. But Leighton, an expert in urban ecology and carnivore conservation, also describes the Cape Peninsula — a rugged, nearly 500-square-kilometer (190-square-mile) area of exceptional biodiversity that encompasses the city and suburbs — as a natural laboratory. Recently, she published the first record of wildcats regularly hunting marine prey. A group of local caracals (Caracal caracal), medium-sized wildcats distinguished by their sharply pointed, lavishly tufted ears, are hunting seabirds, including endangered Cape cormorants (Phalacrocorax capensis) and African penguins (Spheniscus demersus). The highly opportunistic hunter’s dietary shift is likely the result of large-scale, human-induced changes that have led to more caracal-seabird encounters over time, Leighton says. The complex cascade of changes started a long time ago, escalating with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/caracal-meet-penguin-how-humans-pushed-unlikely-predator-and-prey-together/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-288233</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Catastrophic breeding failure’ for penguins as Antarctic sea ice vanishes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/catastrophic-breeding-failure-for-penguins-as-antarctic-sea-ice-vanishes/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/catastrophic-breeding-failure-for-penguins-as-antarctic-sea-ice-vanishes/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Aug 2023 17:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Charismatic Animals, Climate, Climate Change, Extinction, Global Environmental Crisis, Marine, Penguins, Sea Ice, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Emperor penguins in the Antarctic are suffering a “catastrophic” breeding failure as the region’s sea ice vanishes, pointing to a grim future for a species highly susceptible to the impacts of climate, a new study has found. Researchers used satellite imagery to find that chicks in four out of five emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) colonies [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Emperor penguins in the Antarctic are suffering a “catastrophic” breeding failure as the region’s sea ice vanishes, pointing to a grim future for a species highly susceptible to the impacts of climate, a new study has found. Researchers used satellite imagery to find that chicks in four out of five emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea, an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, didn’t survive to fledge in the Southern Hemisphere spring of 2022. This lack of fledgling success is directly attributed to sea ice loss, which is a consequence of human-induced climate change, according to the study published in Communications Earth &amp; Environment. Emperor penguin colonies require sea ice attached to solid land between April and January to breed, molt and forage successfully. Any changes to the sea ice can lead to penguin chicks missing the opportunity to develop the waterproof feathers necessary for survival. The researchers monitored the presence of emperor penguins between 2018 and 2022 at five colonies around the Bellingshausen Sea: on Rothschild Island, Verdi Inlet, Smyley Island, Bryan Coast, and Pfrogner Point. During the species’ breeding season in 2022, satellite imagery showed broken-up sea ice and no presence of penguins. Scientists estimate that if current rates of global warming persist, more than 90% of emperor penguin colonies would be &#8220;quasi-extinct by the end of the century.&#8221; Image by Acaro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Sea ice cover in Antarctica has been experiencing record lows, even now, during the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/catastrophic-breeding-failure-for-penguins-as-antarctic-sea-ice-vanishes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-272585</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Penguins ‘enrich our lives’: Q&#038;A with Pablo Borboroglu, protector of penguins</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/penguins-enrich-our-lives-qa-with-pablo-borboroglu-protector-of-penguins/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Jun 2023 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Patagonia, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Education, Environment, Fisheries, Impact Of Climate Change, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Penguins, Protected Areas, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Pablo Garcia Borboroglu first laid eyes on a wild penguin colony in Patagonia, Argentina, he experienced two things at once: a sense of extraordinary wonder for these wild animals, and shock because of what was happening to them. “In the province where I live here in Patagonia, 40,000 penguins die per year due to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Pablo Garcia Borboroglu first laid eyes on a wild penguin colony in Patagonia, Argentina, he experienced two things at once: a sense of extraordinary wonder for these wild animals, and shock because of what was happening to them. “In the province where I live here in Patagonia, 40,000 penguins die per year due to oil spills,” Borboroglu told Mongabay. “You would go to the coast, and you would find dead penguins covered in oil or penguins that were dying.” Borboroglu initially had no intention of working in conservation science, but he set up a rehabilitation center to help penguins impacted by the oil spills. He also refocused his career on marine biology and conservation, and used his scientific knowledge to help protect penguins around the world. Not only were penguins threatened by oil spills, but they faced many other threats, including plastic pollution, human disturbance, and the impacts of fisheries and climate change. In a career that spans more than three decades, Borboroglu has helped protect 13 million hectares (32 million acres) of penguin marine and terrestrial habitat in Argentina, an area home to about 40% of the world’s population of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). In 2009, he founded the Global Penguin Society, the first and only international science-based coalition focused on the conservation of penguins. He also co-founded the Penguin Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, and helped run conservation education programs that have reached hundreds of thousands of students and community members across&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/penguins-enrich-our-lives-qa-with-pablo-borboroglu-protector-of-penguins/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-269905</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As climate change melts Antarctic ice, gentoo penguins venture further south</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/as-climate-change-melts-antarctic-ice-gentoo-penguins-venture-further-south/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jan 2022 15:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=251903</guid>

					
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Arctic]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Glaciers, Global Environmental Crisis, Ice Shelves, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Penguins, Sea Ice, Species, Species Discovery, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[The crew of the M/V Arctic Sunrise, an icebreaker vessel owned by Greenpeace, were sailing through Antarctica’s Weddell Sea this month when they saw something they didn’t expect. “One of the scientists on board, Alex Borowicz … was looking through the binoculars from the bridge of our ship,” Louisa Casson, an ocean campaigner with Greenpeace [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The crew of the M/V Arctic Sunrise, an icebreaker vessel owned by Greenpeace, were sailing through Antarctica’s Weddell Sea this month when they saw something they didn’t expect. “One of the scientists on board, Alex Borowicz … was looking through the binoculars from the bridge of our ship,” Louisa Casson, an ocean campaigner with Greenpeace UK currently on board the Arctic Sunrise, told Mongabay in a video interview. “He spotted what he thought looked like a penguin colony, where we had seen no previous records.” As the ship drew near, the crew discovered a colony of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) consisting of about 75 chicks living on Andersson Island on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, previously unknown to science. Scientists say this is the furthest south the species has ever been seen in this part of Antarctica, and posit their presence here to the impacts of climate change. Researchers just discovered a new colony of gentoo penguins on Andersson Island on the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula. Image © Tomás Munita / Greenpeace. “It&#8217;s may be a cliché at this point, but they’re the canary in the coal mine for climate change because they&#8217;re so closely tied to those sea ice conditions,” Heather Lynch, an Antarctic penguin expert at Stony Brook University in New York and the remote leader of the expedition, told Mongabay in a video interview. Gentoo penguins are generally found across the sub-Antarctic region, with the largest colonies on the Falkland Islands, South Georgia&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/as-climate-change-melts-antarctic-ice-gentoo-penguins-venture-further-south/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-251903</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘No other choice’: Groups push to protect vast swaths of Antarctic seas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/no-other-choice-groups-push-to-protect-vast-swaths-of-antarctic-seas/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/no-other-choice-groups-push-to-protect-vast-swaths-of-antarctic-seas/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Oct 2020 15:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Arctic]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, COVID-19, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Penguins, Saltwater Fish, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[As a child, Rodolfo Werner used to dream about Antarctica — that vast, white continent with no fixed human population, and surrounded by icy seas teeming with krill, whales and penguins. In 2006, his dream became a reality when he started working in Antarctic marine conservation and traveled to the continent as a guide. Since [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As a child, Rodolfo Werner used to dream about Antarctica — that vast, white continent with no fixed human population, and surrounded by icy seas teeming with krill, whales and penguins. In 2006, his dream became a reality when he started working in Antarctic marine conservation and traveled to the continent as a guide. Since then, he’s visited Antarctica more than 20 times, and the place never ceases to amaze him, he said. “Antarctica catches you when you&#8217;re there,” Werner, now a senior adviser at Pew Charitable Trusts and the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), told Mongabay. “It changes your way of seeing nature because … [it] is so huge and [has] so much wildlife, and it really touches your soul. Every person that goes to Antarctica, when they come back, they are different.” While Antarctica’s land mass is currently protected through the Antarctic Treaty (although this expires in 2048), vast swaths of its marine region are open to industrial fishing for species such as Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides). Conservationists say these fishing activities are endangering the Southern Ocean’s delicate marine ecosystem that hosts more than 15,000 species, and a region that plays a vital role in regulating the world’s climate. A coalition of conservation groups, including Pew, ASOC, SeaLegacy, Antarctica2020, Ocean Unite, and Only One, are working together to advocate for the formation of three marine protected areas (MPAs) in East Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula, and the Weddell Sea. Together, these areas would&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/no-other-choice-groups-push-to-protect-vast-swaths-of-antarctic-seas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-235924</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Emperor penguins could disappear by 2100 if nations don’t cap emissions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/emperor-penguins-could-disappear-by-2100-if-nations-dont-cap-emissions/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/emperor-penguins-could-disappear-by-2100-if-nations-dont-cap-emissions/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Nov 2019 20:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Penguins, Research, Sea Ice, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[If the climate continues to change at its current pace, most emperor penguins could become extinct by the end of this century, a new study predicts. However, if countries meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, limiting the global increase in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, then that would [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[If the climate continues to change at its current pace, most emperor penguins could become extinct by the end of this century, a new study predicts. However, if countries meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, limiting the global increase in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, then that would give penguins a fighting chance, with one-third of their population still projected to decline, researchers say. “If global climate keeps warming at the current rate, we expect emperor penguins in Antarctica to experience an 86 percent decline by the year 2100,” Stéphanie Jenouvrier, a seabird ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and lead author on the study, said in a statement. “At that point, it is very unlikely for them to bounce back.” Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), the largest of all living penguins, need stable sea ice in Antarctica to thrive. They use the ice as a breeding platform, to rear chicks, to molt, feed, and protect themselves from predators. Sea ice also influences the food that the penguins rely on, such as the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica). So fluctuations in sea ice directly affect the birds’ survival: if the sea ice breaks up early, then the chicks could struggle to live; if the sea ice cover is higher than usual, then the penguins have to move farther to get food. Jenouvrier, who has spent more than two decades studying emperor penguins’ lives on the harsh Antarctic sea ice,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/emperor-penguins-could-disappear-by-2100-if-nations-dont-cap-emissions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Penguin and seal poop powers life in Antarctica, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/penguin-and-seal-poop-powers-life-in-antarctica-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 May 2019 12:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Penguins, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the extremely cold, seemingly barren Antarctic continent, poop powers life. Literally. Where colonies of penguins and elephant seals aggregate, their droppings, rich in nitrogen, enrich the soil and support thriving communities of mosses, lichens and invertebrates, a new study has found. It’s not just areas immediately around the borders of the colonies that are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the extremely cold, seemingly barren Antarctic continent, poop powers life. Literally. Where colonies of penguins and elephant seals aggregate, their droppings, rich in nitrogen, enrich the soil and support thriving communities of mosses, lichens and invertebrates, a new study has found. It’s not just areas immediately around the borders of the colonies that are rich in biodiversity. The influence of the animals’ excrement seems to spread more than 1,000 meters (0.62 miles) away, researchers have found. “What we see is that the poo produced by seals and penguins partly evaporates as ammonia,” Stef Bokhorst, a researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “Then, the ammonia gets picked up by the wind and is blown inland, and this makes its way into the soil and provides the nitrogen that primary producers need in order to survive in this landscape.” Bokhorst and his colleagues found this by tracing the flow of nitrogen, an element that has isotopes that can be tracked, right from colonies of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap penguins (P. antarctica), gentoo penguins (P. papua) and elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) to mosses, lichens and tiny invertebrates. They trekked through the landscape, collecting samples of soil and vegetation, and set up sensors to detect airborne ammonia, a compound made of nitrogen and hydrogen. They also spent months in the lab analyzing the samples, as well as counting and identifying the invertebrates they had collected. Their analysis showed that ammonia released from penguin&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/penguin-and-seal-poop-powers-life-in-antarctica-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Large emperor penguin colony suffers ‘catastrophic’ breeding failure</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/large-emperor-penguin-colony-suffers-catastrophic-breeding-failure/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/large-emperor-penguin-colony-suffers-catastrophic-breeding-failure/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Apr 2019 12:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Penguins, Research, Sea Ice, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica’s second-largest colony of emperor penguins has likely not produced any chicks over the last three years, a new study has found. Until recently, the emperor penguin colony at Halley Bay on the Weddell Sea supported between 14,000 and 25,000 breeding pairs, or around 5 to 9 percent of the bird’s population in the world. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica’s second-largest colony of emperor penguins has likely not produced any chicks over the last three years, a new study has found. Until recently, the emperor penguin colony at Halley Bay on the Weddell Sea supported between 14,000 and 25,000 breeding pairs, or around 5 to 9 percent of the bird’s population in the world. There have been fluctuations in the size of the colony over the past decades, according to researchers from the British Antarctic Survey, who have been visiting and surveying the area since the 1950s. But since 2016, satellite images have shown that the colony has suffered a complete breeding failure, something that’s never been recorded before. “We have been tracking the population of this, and other colonies in the region, for the last decade using very high resolution satellite imagery,” Peter Fretwell, a remote-sensing specialist at the British Antarctic Survey and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “These images have clearly shown the catastrophic breeding failure at this site over the last three years. Our specialised satellite image analysis can detect individuals and penguin huddles, so we can estimate the population based on the known density of the groups to give reliable estimate of colony size.” Emperor penguins need intact sea ice until the chicks are ready to leave their nesting grounds. Image by Christopher Michel via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is a unique bird in many ways. It is the largest of all living penguin species and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/large-emperor-penguin-colony-suffers-catastrophic-breeding-failure/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bird flu in Namibia’s penguins wanes, after killing nearly 500</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/bird-flu-in-namibian-penguins-wanes-after-killing-nearly-500/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Apr 2019 06:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Namibia, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Birds, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Penguins, Politics, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than three months, penguins living off the coast of Namibia have been battling an outbreak of bird flu. The worst of the disease seems to have passed, but hundreds of birds have died, said Jessica Kemper, an independent conservation biologist in Lüderitz, Namibia. “We might still get some mortalities, but hopefully the epidemic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than three months, penguins living off the coast of Namibia have been battling an outbreak of bird flu. The worst of the disease seems to have passed, but hundreds of birds have died, said Jessica Kemper, an independent conservation biologist in Lüderitz, Namibia. “We might still get some mortalities, but hopefully the epidemic will be over in the next few weeks,” Kemper told Mongabay by email. “Luckily the virus didn’t go completely wild, and unless it flares up again or another potentially catastrophic event takes place (think oil spill), the population should recover.” A penguin breeding colony on Halifax Island near Dias Point Lighthouse. Image © Jessica Kemper. Namibia&#8217;s fisheries ministry alerted the public to the outbreak on Feb. 13. By mid-April, the virus had killed at least 459 penguins on the islands of Halifax, Ichaboe and Mercury off the coast of southwestern Namibia. More may have died, their carcasses washing out to sea before scientists could count them. Kemper and her colleagues have been burning the bodies of penguins killed by the H5N8 bird flu virus. It’s a safety measure to keep the virus from spreading, she said, learned from biologists in Cape Town, South Africa, who faced a similar bout of avian flu in 2018. Treatment is not a viable option, as the disease progresses quickly once the penguins start to look sick before sinking into a coma, Kemper said. In fact, releasing birds that have recovered may help the virus maintain its foothold in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/bird-flu-in-namibian-penguins-wanes-after-killing-nearly-500/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Why are more female than male Magellanic penguins stranded in South America every year?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/why-are-more-female-than-male-magellanic-penguins-stranded-in-south-america-every-year/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Jan 2019 19:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Brazil, South America, and Uruguay]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Birds, Bycatch, Environment, Fishing, Penguins, Research, Water Pollution, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thousands of Magellanic penguins become stranded every year along the coast of South America, from northern Argentina all the way down to southern Brazil, and are unable to make it back to their breeding grounds in Patagonia 1,000 miles or more away. Scientists have observed that the penguins that get left behind are three times [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Thousands of Magellanic penguins become stranded every year along the coast of South America, from northern Argentina all the way down to southern Brazil, and are unable to make it back to their breeding grounds in Patagonia 1,000 miles or more away. Scientists have observed that the penguins that get left behind are three times as likely to be female as male. But, due to a dearth of data on the penguins’ migratory habits, it could not be determined why there was such a gender-based discrepancy to the strandings. Because a disproportionate number of females are being removed from the breeding population, this could have serious consequences for the viability of the population as a whole. New research published this month in the journal Current Biology sheds new light on the situation, however, finding that, among other behavioral differences, female Magellanic penguins are likely to venture farther north than their male counterparts — and that by doing so, they’re more likely to run into the kinds of trouble that can leave them stranded. Takashi Yamamoto of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo led a research team that used animal-borne data recorders to track the migratory and diving habits of 14 Magellanic penguins — eight males and six females — during their non-breeding period in 2017. The penguins spend most of their wintering season at sea, where they are at risk from a range of manmade threats. &#8220;Anthropogenic threats have been considered to threaten wintering Magellanic penguins along the coasts&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/why-are-more-female-than-male-magellanic-penguins-stranded-in-south-america-every-year/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Argentina creates two new marine parks to protect penguins, sea lions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/argentina-creates-two-new-marine-parks-to-protect-penguins-sea-lions/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Dec 2018 08:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Endangered Species, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Penguins, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina has officially created two large marine protected areas: the Yaganes Marine National Park, lying off of the country’s southern tip, and the Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank II Marine National Park in the South Atlantic. Together, the two parks cover a total area of about 98,000 square kilometers (37,000 square miles). By designating these two marine parks, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina has officially created two large marine protected areas: the Yaganes Marine National Park, lying off of the country’s southern tip, and the Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank II Marine National Park in the South Atlantic. Together, the two parks cover a total area of about 98,000 square kilometers (37,000 square miles). By designating these two marine parks, Argentina has increased the total area of its protected ocean to about 8 percent. This puts the country closer to achieving its commitment of protecting 10 percent of its national waters by 2020 under the biodiversity targets of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Yaganes Marine National Park lies off the southern tip of Argentina, while Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank II Marine National Park is located in the South Atlantic. Image courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Recent explorations of the areas now designated as marine parks have shown that the waters and surrounding land are home to a rich diversity of marine creatures including the South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens); king (Aptenodytes patagonicus), rockhopper (Eudyptes spp.) and Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus); South American fur seal (Arctocephalus australis); several species of sharks and rays; and rare cold-water corals. Many marine species in these parks are not found anywhere else on Earth. The sea floor is also covered by mountains and canyons and giant kelp forests, the expeditions conducted by National Geographic’s Pristine Seas team, the government of Argentina, the government of Tierra del Fuego, and the Forum for the Conservation of the Patagonian Sea, revealed. “Argentina’s new marine parks&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/argentina-creates-two-new-marine-parks-to-protect-penguins-sea-lions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Photos: Here are the winners of the 2018 British Ecological Society photo contest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/photos-here-are-the-winners-of-the-2018-british-ecological-society-photo-contest/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Dec 2018 12:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Bats, Birds, Canids, Climate Change, Environment, Frogs, Herps, Insects, Mammals, Marine, Penguins, Photos, Reptiles, Snakes, Spiders, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A king penguin standing out starkly from the crowd took the top prize in the British Ecological Society’s “Capturing Ecology” photo competition this year. Chris Oosthuizen of South Africa’s University of Pretoria snapped the winning image of a single colorful adult king penguin amidst a crowd of brown-colored chicks on Marion Island, part of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A king penguin standing out starkly from the crowd took the top prize in the British Ecological Society’s “Capturing Ecology” photo competition this year. Chris Oosthuizen of South Africa’s University of Pretoria snapped the winning image of a single colorful adult king penguin amidst a crowd of brown-colored chicks on Marion Island, part of the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean. The photo was taken while Oosthuizen spent a year on the remote, sub-Antarctic island researching seals and killer whales. “Some images have the power to say much more than words, and Chris’s image, which showcases the remarkable colony life of an iconic bird species, raises awareness of their uncertain future due to climate change,” Richard Bardgett, President of the British Ecological Society, said in a statement. Oosthuizen, for his part, also seemed hopeful that the prize-winning photo might help draw attention to the challenges king penguins face due to the impacts of human activities. “Although the global population of king penguins is large, populations inhabiting islands around the Antarctic face an uncertain future,” he said. “Global climate change may shift the oceanic fronts where they feed further away from breeding sites, forcing penguins to travel farther to reach their foraging grounds.” Adrià López Baucells, a PhD student at Portugal’s University of Lisbon, was the overall student winner of this year’s Capturing Ecology contest. López Baucells and his colleague Oriol Massana used a motion sensor and four synchronized flashes to capture a fringe-lipped bat in mid-flight as it preys&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/photos-here-are-the-winners-of-the-2018-british-ecological-society-photo-contest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New Zealand penguins make ‘crazy’ 7,000-km round trip for food</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/new-zealand-penguins-make-crazy-7000-km-round-trip-for-food/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/new-zealand-penguins-make-crazy-7000-km-round-trip-for-food/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Sep 2018 06:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[New Zealand and Oceania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Environment, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Penguins, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A little-known penguin in New Zealand makes an epic journey for food, a new study has found. The Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), or tawaki as it’s locally known, lives in the forests of New Zealand’s rugged southwestern coastline. Every year, after the penguins have raised their chicks, an exhaustive period during which the tawaki can [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A little-known penguin in New Zealand makes an epic journey for food, a new study has found. The Fiordland penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus), or tawaki as it’s locally known, lives in the forests of New Zealand’s rugged southwestern coastline. Every year, after the penguins have raised their chicks, an exhaustive period during which the tawaki can lose up to half their pre-breeding body weight, the birds set out into the sea in search of food. They have about three months from December to February to put on weight in time for their annual moult: a three-week energy-intensive process when the penguins grow a new set of feathers. During this period, the birds have to remain on land and cannot go out to hunt. Until recently, researchers did not know where the penguins went to feed during the pre-moult period to restore their weight, or how far they traveled from their breeding colonies. Now, they have an answer. A team of researchers tagged 17 tawaki with satellite transmitters and tracked their movements from November 2016 to March 2017. In less than three months, the birds made a round trip of up to 6,800 kilometers (4,225 miles). This makes it one of the longest-known pre-moult penguin migrations to date, researchers report in the study published in PLoS One. Macaroni and Rockhopper penguins from Marion Island in the southwest Indian Ocean, by contrast, have been reported to travel between 700 and 900 kilometers (435 and 560 miles) away from their breeding colonies. On a day-to-day basis,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/new-zealand-penguins-make-crazy-7000-km-round-trip-for-food/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-209887</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Largest king penguin colony in the world has shrunk by 90%</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/largest-king-penguin-colony-in-the-world-has-shrunk-by-90/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2018 08:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and France]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Islands, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Penguins, Research, Satellite Imagery, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s largest colony of king penguins has declined drastically by nearly 90 percent, a new study has found. The massive king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony on the remote island of Île aux Cochons or Pig Island, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean, was first discovered and photographed in the early 1960s by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s largest colony of king penguins has declined drastically by nearly 90 percent, a new study has found. The massive king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony on the remote island of Île aux Cochons or Pig Island, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean, was first discovered and photographed in the early 1960s by a team of cartographers. In 1982, researchers used satellite images to come up with an estimate of more than 2 million king penguins on the island, including more than 500,000 breeding pairs. This made it the largest colony of king penguins on Earth, and the second largest colony of all penguins. (A colony of chinstrap penguins on the British-administered Zavodovski Island, in the southern Atlantic, has some 1 million breeding pairs.) More than three decades later, by 2017, the number of king penguins on Île aux Cochons had shrunk to just about 200,000 penguins, including some 60,000 breeding pairs, researchers report in the study published in Antarctic Science. By analyzing satellite images of the area and data from helicopter surveys, researchers also found that the total surface area of the island occupied by the penguins has progressively declined since 1982. “It is completely unexpected, and particularly significant since this colony represented nearly one third of the king penguins in the world,” Henri Weimerskirch, the lead author of the study and an ecologist at the National Center for Scientific Research (or CNRS) in Chizé, France, who was also part of the 1982 research team, told AFP. Gradual shrinkage of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/largest-king-penguin-colony-in-the-world-has-shrunk-by-90/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-209007</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How to help penguins (photos)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/how-to-help-penguins-photos/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Apr 2018 11:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[David OehlerJulie Larsen MaherMegan Maher]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Environment, Penguins, Photos, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are found in the Southern Hemisphere and come in all sizes ranging from 13 to 48 inches in height. The smallest is the little penguin from Australia and New Zealand; the largest is the emperor penguin of Antarctica. While these birds cannot fly through the air, they are very adept at using their wings [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are found in the Southern Hemisphere and come in all sizes ranging from 13 to 48 inches in height. The smallest is the little penguin from Australia and New Zealand; the largest is the emperor penguin of Antarctica. While these birds cannot fly through the air, they are very adept at using their wings to propel themselves through the water. Some penguins can dive to depths of about 1,750 feet. Their dark and light feathers are tightly packed — 70 feathers per square inch — keeping them insulated in the cold conditions of the marine environment where they live. Chinstrap penguins are found in Antarctica and the world&#8217;s other southernmost islands. Changing ocean conditions affect their main food source, krill. Credit: © Julie Larsen Maher / WCS Penguins are social animals that live in colonies like this one of chinstrap penguins characterized by noisy vocalizations. Credit: Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS Penguins are noisy and use various calls to attract mates, find their chicks, frighten off would-be predators, or just fuss with their neighboring penguins. Several species have distinctive calls. Magellanic and gentoo penguins bray. Chinstrap penguins scream, causing quite a cacophony in their colonies. Today, penguins are in trouble. They depend on the sea for food and coastal lands to nest, rear their chicks, and molt. Close to two-thirds of the world&#8217;s 17 penguin species face population pressures from threats like overfishing, oil spills, and man-made changes to the birds&#8217; environment. Macaroni penguins are among the penguin species that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/how-to-help-penguins-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists&#8217; hopes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/penguin-mega-colony-discovered-using-satellites-and-drones-raising-scientists-hopes/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2018 13:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drones, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Penguins, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a &#8216;supercolony&#8217; of Adélie penguins in Antarctica&#8217;s remote Danger Islands, raising hopes that the bird&#8217;s population isn&#8217;t declining as rapidly as previously thought. The discovery, which is documented in a paper published this week in Scientific Reports, came after Stony Brook University biologist Heather Lynch and NASA&#8217;s Mathew Schwaller noticed apparent guano [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists have discovered a &#8216;supercolony&#8217; of Adélie penguins in Antarctica&#8217;s remote Danger Islands, raising hopes that the bird&#8217;s population isn&#8217;t declining as rapidly as previously thought. The discovery, which is documented in a paper published this week in Scientific Reports, came after Stony Brook University biologist Heather Lynch and NASA&#8217;s Mathew Schwaller noticed apparent guano stains in satellite images of the Danger Islands, a remote chain of normally ice-locked islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, in 2014. Flying a UAV in Antarctica. CREDIT: Casey Youngflesh, © Stony Brook University Adélie penguins. Credit: Michael Polito, © Louisiana State University In December 2015, Lynch and a multinational research team undertook an expedition to the islands, finding thousands of nesting birds. The scientists utilized quadcopter drones to survey the nesting grounds in an automated manner and then used software to process the imagery for individual nests. The approach enabled a fast and highly accurate count relative to ground observations. &#8220;The drone lets you fly in a grid over the island, taking pictures once per second,&#8221; said study co-author Hanumant Singh, a Northeastern University engineer who developed the drone&#8217;s imaging and navigation system, in a statement. &#8220;You can then stitch them together into a huge collage that shows the entire landmass in 2D and 3D.&#8221; Credit: Thomas Sayre McChord, Hanumant Singh, Northeastern University, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution &nbsp; In all, the researchers counted a million and a half penguins. &#8220;Our survey reveals that the Danger Islands host 751,527 pairs of Adélie penguins, more than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/penguin-mega-colony-discovered-using-satellites-and-drones-raising-scientists-hopes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-204268</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ecological trap ensnares endangered African penguins</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/ecological-trap-ensnares-endangered-african-penguins/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Feb 2017 05:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Namibia, and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Animal Behavior, Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Fishing, Habitat Loss, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Penguins, Protected Areas, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evolution can be an exquisite hammer, tapping out finely honed strategies for the survival of life on Earth against the blunt force of the environment. But mess with those surroundings too much or change them too quickly, and suddenly those adaptations might point organisms in the wrong direction – in effect, leading them into a costly trap [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evolution can be an exquisite hammer, tapping out finely honed strategies for the survival of life on Earth against the blunt force of the environment. But mess with those surroundings too much or change them too quickly, and suddenly those adaptations might point organisms in the wrong direction – in effect, leading them into a costly trap that could lead to their demise. On the southern tip of Africa, scientists recently discovered that African penguins (Spheniscus demersus), an Endangered species according to the IUCN, seem to be falling into this sort of “ecological trap”– the first ever found in the ocean environment. And it’s one that we humans have caused through overfishing and climate change. Led by ecologist Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter in Britain and the University of Cape Town in South Africa, the team, which included researchers from the governments of Namibia and South Africa, published their research Thursday in the journal Current Biology. Lead author Richard Sherley measures a young African penguin (Spheniscus demersus). Photo courtesy of Richard Sherley Penguin numbers in South Africa’s Western Cape have plummeted by around 80 percent in recent decades. Biologists chalked this decline up to the disappearance of their favorite prey species, anchovies and sardines, from the Western Cape penguins’ preferred feeding grounds to the west of their nesting sites. Overfishing and changes in the water chemistry – knock-on effects of climate change – pushed breeding shoals of these fish eastward or wiped them out entirely. For ages, ocean waters west of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/ecological-trap-ensnares-endangered-african-penguins/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-193091</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Coastal wildlife paradise declared biosphere reserve in Argentina (PHOTOS)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/coastal-wildlife-paradise-declared-biosphere-reserve-in-argentina-photos/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Jul 2014 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Cetaceans, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Marine Mammals, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Parks, Penguins, Photos, Protected Areas, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Southern elephant seals battle for mating rights. Photo by: G. Harris/WCS. Conservationists are celebrating the announcement that UNESCO has dubbed Argentina&#8217;s Península Valdés a biosphere reserve under the Man and Biosphere Program (MBA). A hatchet-shaped peninsula that juts out into the Southern Atlantic Ocean, the world&#8217;s newest biosphere reserve is home to a hugely-diverse collection [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Southern elephant seals battle for mating rights. Photo by: G. Harris/WCS. Conservationists are celebrating the announcement that UNESCO has dubbed Argentina&#8217;s Península Valdés a biosphere reserve under the Man and Biosphere Program (MBA). A hatchet-shaped peninsula that juts out into the Southern Atlantic Ocean, the world&#8217;s newest biosphere reserve is home to a hugely-diverse collection of both terrestrial and marine wildlife. &#8220;Southern right whales that swim within meters of shore, schools of dusky dolphins, huge colonies of Magellanic penguins, rookeries of South American sea lions that bustle with activity, orcas that beach themselves to capture pups and southern elephant seals that huddle in thousands on lonely sandy beaches,&#8221; said Senior Conservation, William Conway, with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). &#8220;This is the wildlife that makes Península Valdés on the coast of Patagonia so special, one of the world&#8217;s great natural wonders.&#8221; In fact, the peninsula houses the world&#8217;s largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) in South America and is home to 4,000 southern right whales (Eubalaena australis), about one third of the total breeding population. On land, the reserve supports abundant populations guanacos (Lama guanicoe), the rabbit-like Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum), and Darwin&#8217;s rhea (Rhea pennata), the latter two which are listed as Near Threatened. Its designation as a biosphere reserve means that the Península Valdés reserve becomes a part of a global network to test new sustainable management ideas in order to better-harmonize environmental protection with human needs and economies. Moreover, the designation adds Punta Ninfas,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/coastal-wildlife-paradise-declared-biosphere-reserve-in-argentina-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24934</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Can penguins cope with climate change? Scientists find different types of ice elicit different responses</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/can-penguins-cope-with-climate-change-scientists-find-different-types-of-ice-elicit-different-responses/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Mar 2014 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Extinction, Green, and Penguins]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human-caused climate change is altering the habitat of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae). In an article recently published in PLOS ONE, a team of researchers led by Amélie Lescroël from the Centre d&#8217;Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS) in France, found that changes in sea-ice content and newly formed icebergs significantly impacted Adélie penguin communities in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Human-caused climate change is altering the habitat of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae). In an article recently published in PLOS ONE, a team of researchers led by Amélie Lescroël from the Centre d&#8217;Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CNRS) in France, found that changes in sea-ice content and newly formed icebergs significantly impacted Adélie penguin communities in the Ross Sea. Climate change is leading to major shifts in sea ice. One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica has begun to melt at a rate some scientists describe as irreversible. Pine Island Glacier contributes a fourth of the discharge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It is estimated that if this entire ice sheet were to melt, sea levels would rise by ten feet. Other areas of the Antarctic are experiencing cooling events, resulting in greater ice coverage known as &#8220;fast ice.&#8221; However, scientists believe that melting will supplant fast ice in the near future. An Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae). Photo courtesy of Reinhard Jahn under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany license. &#8220;While net sea ice cover (i.e., the area of ocean covered by ice) has increased over the past few decades [in Antarctica] owing to wind changes brought largely by mid-latitude warming and the Antarctic Ozone Hole, modeled predictions point to a decrease by 5-15 percent, depending on sector, by 2025-2052,&#8221; the study states. &#8220;Concomitantly, increased ice shelf instability will lead to more frequent iceberg calving, including very large icebergs (hundreds of square kilometers).&#8221; Sea ice cover variability directly affects Adélie&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/03/can-penguins-cope-with-climate-change-scientists-find-different-types-of-ice-elicit-different-responses/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>No place like home: scientists discover that male crested penguins head home earlier than females</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/no-place-like-home-scientists-discover-that-male-crested-penguins-head-home-earlier-than-females/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Oct 2013 14:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Birds, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Penguins, and Seabirds]]>
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							<![CDATA[Male crested penguins are hard workers &#8211; especially when it comes to their elaborate breeding ritual. After gathering in massive colonies to mate, they find and establish a nesting site, help incubate the eggs females lay, and then guard the chicks after they hatch. Male crested penguins have also been known to arrive at their [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Male crested penguins are hard workers &#8211; especially when it comes to their elaborate breeding ritual. After gathering in massive colonies to mate, they find and establish a nesting site, help incubate the eggs females lay, and then guard the chicks after they hatch. Male crested penguins have also been known to arrive at their breeding locations long before the females. But the reasons for this have been largely speculative. Do the males start swimming back to their breeding grounds earlier than the females? Do the males swim faster than the females? Do the females wait offshore while the males secure nesting sites? Scientists have answered this using a new modeling technique in a new study published in the Journal of Zoology, and have determined for the first time that male crested penguins do start migrating from their winter feeding grounds towards their breeding grounds about nine days before the females. Northern rockhopper penguins coming back ashore among the fur seals on Amsterdam Island, southern Indian Ocean. Photo by Jean-Baptiste Thiebot. Crested penguins include several species of the genus Eudyptes (black and white plumage with red bills and yellow crests of feathers over their eyes), all of which are currently listed as Vulnerable or Endangered by the IUCN Red List. While threats to these penguins are increasing, they are difficult track. &#8220;At-sea life of penguins is difficult to observe directly, because of their diving habit, their low profile above the sea surface and the harsh weather conditions often prevailing in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/10/no-place-like-home-scientists-discover-that-male-crested-penguins-head-home-earlier-than-females/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Photos: emperor penguins take first place in renowned wildlife photo contest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/photos-emperor-penguins-take-first-place-in-renowned-wildlife-photo-contest/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Oct 2012 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica, Arctic, and Greenland]]>
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							<![CDATA[This was the image Paul had been so hoping to get: a sunlit mass of emperor penguins charging upwards, leaving in their wake a crisscross of bubble trails. The location was near the emperor colony at the edge of the frozen area of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It was into the only likely exit hole [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This was the image Paul had been so hoping to get: a sunlit mass of emperor penguins charging upwards, leaving in their wake a crisscross of bubble trails. The location was near the emperor colony at the edge of the frozen area of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. It was into the only likely exit hole that he lowered himself. He then had to wait for the return of the penguins, crops full of icefish for their chicks. Paul locked his legs under the lip of the ice so he could remain motionless, breathing through a snorkel so as not to spook the penguins when they arrived. Then it came: a blast of birds from the depths. They were so fast that, with frozen fingers, framing and focus had to be instinctive. ‘It was a fantastic sight’, says Paul, ‘as hundreds launched themselves out of the water and onto the ice above me’ – a moment that I felt incredibly fortunate to witness and one I’ll never forget. Photo by: Paul Nicklen (Canada) / Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012. Photographer, Paul Nicklen, says he&#8217;ll never forget the moment when a slew of emperor penguins burst by him in the frigid Ross Sea; he&#8217;d waited in the cold water, using a snorkel, to capture this image. Now, Nicklen has won the much-coveted Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition for the antic, bubbling photograph. Owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Worldwide, this is the 48th year&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/10/photos-emperor-penguins-take-first-place-in-renowned-wildlife-photo-contest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30166</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Penguins face a slippery future</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/penguins-face-a-slippery-future/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Sep 2012 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, Latin America, New Zealand, South America, and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Fishing, Fossil Fuels, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Marine, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Oil, Oil Spills, Overfishing, Penguins, Photos, Pollution, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adelie penguins hunting for food. Photo by: J. Weller. Click to enlarge. Pablo Garcia Borboroglu will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 13th, 2012. Penguins have spent years fooling us. With their image seemingly every where we turn&#8212;entertaining us in animated films, awing us in documentaries, and winking [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adelie penguins hunting for food. Photo by: J. Weller. Click to enlarge. Pablo Garcia Borboroglu will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 13th, 2012. Penguins have spent years fooling us. With their image seemingly every where we turn&#8212;entertaining us in animated films, awing us in documentaries, and winking at us in commercials&#8212;they have made most of us believe they are doing just fine; the penguin&#8217;s charming demeanor has lulled us into complacency about their fate. But penguin populations are facing historic declines even as their popularity in human society rises. Overfishing is decimating some of their prey species, climate change is shifting their resources and imperiling their habitat, meanwhile pollution, such as oil spills, are putting even healthy colonies at risk. Now, a young organization, the Global Penguin Society (GPS), is working to save all of the world&#8217;s 18 penguin species by working with scientists, governments, and local communities. &#8220;Penguins are telling us a story that we need to hear: 11 of the 18 species of penguins are listed as Vulnerable or Endangered by IUCN,&#8221; Pablo Garcia Borboroglu, the President of the Global Penguin Society, told mongabay.com in a recent interview. &#8220;Penguins have particular life history traits that make them vulnerable to environmental changes. They are flightless Southern Hemisphere birds. They are long-lived, lay one or two eggs, and take several months to raise their offspring. They breed in colonies, and depend on marine food sources that are spatially and temporarily unpredictable.&#8221; These&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/09/penguins-face-a-slippery-future/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30243</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal pictures of the day: Humboldt penguin chick meets water</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/08/cute-animal-pictures-of-the-day-humboldt-penguin-chick-meets-water/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Aug 2012 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina and Chile]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Penguins, Photos, Picture Of The Day, Seabirds, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Keeper, Vicky Fryson, helps a Humboldt penguin chick, Pickle, test the water for the first time. Photo by: Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) London Zoo. Humboldt penguins was found along the western edge of South America in Chile and Argentina. They face a barrage of threats including overfishing, drowning as bycatch, El Nino conditions that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Keeper, Vicky Fryson, helps a Humboldt penguin chick, Pickle, test the water for the first time. Photo by: Zoological Society of London&#8217;s (ZSL) London Zoo. Humboldt penguins was found along the western edge of South America in Chile and Argentina. They face a barrage of threats including overfishing, drowning as bycatch, El Nino conditions that affect food availability, and climate change. Significant population declines have led to the species being listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Penguins are one of the world&#8217;s most imperiled bird families. Sixty percent of the world&#8217;s penguin species are considered threatened with extinction, if the Near Threatened category is included that percentage jumps to 70. Fryson said of Pickle: &#8216;Pickle has lost almost all of his fluffy baby feathers now, and he’s nearly ready for his debut in the big pool. At the moment he just splashes about quite a bit so he’ll be staying in the training pool until he’s mastered his swimming technique.&#8217; Photo courtesy of: ZSL. Fryson and Pickle. Photo courtesy of ZSL.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/08/cute-animal-pictures-of-the-day-humboldt-penguin-chick-meets-water/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: African penguin chick</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-african-penguin-chick/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Jul 2012 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Green, Penguins, Photos, Picture Of The Day, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[This African penguin chick is the first one to be born at the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s (WCS) New York Aquarium in 15 years. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher. Found along the coast of southern Africa, the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List largely due to overfishing, which is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This African penguin chick is the first one to be born at the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s (WCS) New York Aquarium in 15 years. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher. Found along the coast of southern Africa, the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List largely due to overfishing, which is decreasing the penguins&#8217; prey species, and oil pollution. Two oil spills in the last ten years have oiled over 30,000 African penguins. &#8220;The arrival of this penguin chick is a significant event for the New York Aquarium,&#8221; Jon Forrest Dohlin, WCS Vice President and Director of the WCS New York Aquarium, said in a press release. &#8220;The birth of any endangered or threatened species helps us further our goal of educating and enlightening people about the need to help save fragile ocean ecosystems and the wildlife that lives here.&#8221; Penguins are some of the world&#8217;s most imperiled bird families. Sixty percent of the world&#8217;s penguin species are considered threatened with extinction, if the IUCN&#8217;s Near Threatened category is included the percentage jumps to 70. Overfishing, pollution, and increasingly climate change are considered the most pervasive threats to the world&#8217;s penguins. Adult African penguin. Photo by: Julie Larsen Maher.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-african-penguin-chick/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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