Tag: Ile aux Cochons

• Tuesday, July 31st 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  King penguins down to 10% of original population in three years in French island

  

  The planet's largest colony of King penguins has declined by nearly 90% in three decades, alarmed researchers said on Monday. The last time scientists set foot on France's remote Ile aux Cochons — roughly half way between the tip of Africa and Antarctica — the island was blanketed by two million of the flightless birds, which stand about a meter tall.