Tag: Magellanic Penguin

• Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 22:25 UTC

  Punta Tombo penguin massacre trial begins

  

  The trial against Argentine Patagonian rancher Luis Alberto La Regina started this week in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in the province of Chubut. He is prosecuted for the destruction of 175 nests, with an average of two eggs per nest, in addition to crushing chicks and adult animals in a natural sanctuary to open a rural road in what became known as the Punta Tombo Massacre. The defendant was denounced by his nephew back in 2021.

• Monday, January 21st 2019 - 15:33 UTC

  Penguin Awareness Day

  

  Penguin Awareness Day is an unofficial holiday which is celebrated annually on January 20th. This holiday is used to celebrate and commemorate these fascinating flightless birds which are loved by people all over the world. It’s also a day to bring attention to the plight of these birds whose numbers seem to be shrinking faster and faster each and every day.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2015 - 06:16 UTC

  Patagonia Azul in Chubut becomes Biosphere reserve; holds 40% of world's Magellan penguins

  

  The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB) added this week twenty 20 new sites (including two in Latina America) to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, bringing their total number to 651 sites, including 15 trans-boundary sites, in 120 countries.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 10:46 UTC

  Falkland Science Symposium celebrate Penguin Awareness Day

  

  The world’s northernmost colony of king penguins has something to celebrate this week, as Tuesday marks Penguin Awareness Day and these well dressed seabirds play host to an international group of scientists gathered to discuss the Falkland Islands’ rich potential for new research.