Largest King Penguin Colony Population Has Declined Drastically
Compared to 500,000 breeding pairs in the 1980s, only 60,000 penguin pairs now remain.
Jul 31, 2018
Sukanya Charuchandra
The second-largest penguin population in the world has lost 88 percent of its members, researchers reported last week (July 25) in Antarctic Science. The penguins live on Ile aux Cochons (Pig Island), which lies in the southern Indian Ocean between Africa and Antartica.
The decline “is completely unexpected, and particularly significant since this colony represented nearly one third of the king penguins in the world,†coauthor Henri Weimerskirch, an ecologist at the Centre for Biological Studies in France, tells Agence France-Presse.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/largest-king-penguin-colony-population-has-declined-drastically-64590
