Too Much Ice ? Not Enough Ice? Eco Alarm As Penguin Chicks Die

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

This story has been doing the rounds today. This is from the Guardian:

A colony of about 40,000 Adélie penguins in Antarctica has suffered a “catastrophic breeding event” – all but two chicks have died of starvation this year. It is the second time in just four years that such devastation – not previously seen in more than 50 years of observation – has been wrought on the population.

The finding has prompted urgent calls for the establishment of a marine protected area in East Antarctica, at next week’s meeting of 24 nations and the European Union at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart.

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