Tag: Dumont D'Urville

• Monday, October 16th 2017 - 11:30 UTC

  Massive starvation of Adelie penguin chicks; allegedly extensive ice late in summer to blame

  

  Thousands of Adelie penguin chicks died in Antarctica early this year, in an event now prompting conservationists to call for the urgent protection of east Antarctic waters. Scientists studying a colony of more than 18,000 pairs of Adelie penguins in the French Antarctic territory, Adelie Land, discovered only two chicks had survived at the start of 2017. The rest of the chicks had starved.