Southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) are large predators, weighing between 3 and 5 kg. Image: Lucas Krüger Like the albatross, the giant petrel could be used to monitor fisheries in the Antarctic. Opportunistic, its home range allows it to cover a vast...
It’s not the Arctic, but Brazil has been present in Antarctica for 40 years and feels that the time has come to look north. Image: Marinha do Brasil Brazil is making progress on polar issues and its deployment capability. For the first time, it has published a...
Like this footage from last year, when some 50 dead penguins washed up in the same region at once, it looked similarly on the beaches of Santa Catarina last week. A total of 596 dead animals were counted at one time. Image: Educar / Divulgação Magellanic penguins do...
Magellanic penguins breed from about September to February/March on the coasts of Argentina and southern Chile and, as seen here, in the Falkland Islands. Photo: Dr. Michael Wenger The beaches in Brazil’s Santos Bay are being monitored as part of the Petrobras...