Survey above the former whaling station Grytviken. Photo: Dr. Pierre Tichit, CC-BY On South Georgia, invasive plants and invertebrates colonise the newly available habitats in front of the melting glaciers relatively quickly – which probably does not bode well...
An emperor penguin colony near the ice edge photographed during an aerial survey. Photo: Sara Labrousse High-resolution satellite images enabled an international research team to document the global population development of emperor penguins for the first time:...
The St Andrews Bay king penguin colony is the largest in South Georgia, with around 150,000 breeding pairs. Image : Camille Lin The two most common species of penguin in the South Georgia archipelago have just shown signs of vulnerability to the avian flu virus....
Dr. Marco Falchieri, scientist at the Animal and Plant Health Agency, taking samples from a fur seal (left). The kelp gull is widespread in the sub-Antarctic islands and is one of the species affected by the avian influenza virus. Images: British Antarctic Survey /...
Southern elephant seals crowd the beaches of South Georgia in their thousands, amidst penguins and with numerous seabirds as neighbors. However, this also brings them into quicker contact with the globally rampant HPAI H5N1 virus, which is now raging among seals....