Tag: Punta Tombo

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 19:00 UTC

  Unauthorized works kill hundreds of penguins in Chubut

  

  A landowner in the town of Punta Tombo in the Argentine Province of Chubut is to be prosecuted under the Law of Cruelk Treatment Against Animals after crushing several penguin nests and electrocuting over a hundred of the birds living at the local natural wildlife reserve some 110 kilometres south from Rawson, the provincial capital.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 12:28 UTC

  Magellanic penguins rookery discovered in Tierra del Fuego remote island

  

  Just in time for Penguin Awareness Day on January 20th, WCS researchers announced the discovery of a new colony of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) on a remote island in Argentina.

• Friday, January 31st 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  Climate change increasing penguin chick mortality in Argentina, says report

  

  Penguin-chick mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina, a trend scientists attribute to climate change and expect to worsen throughout the century, a new study finds.