An environmental disaster in the Antarctica - colony of 150,000 Adelie penguins wiped out

#adeliepenguins #antarctica #iceberg #B09B The wiping out of 150,000 Adelie penguins from East Antarctica is an environmental disaster because, an iceberg, the size of Rome, has become became lodged in their bay. As a result, these penguins who used to live near a large body of open water, now face extinction- the arrival of the iceberg coupled with fast expansion of ice have affected the food cycle of the birds. They now have to travel nearly 70 miles to get food.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 14 February 2016.

Already nearly 150,000 penguins of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay have been killed. The iceberg measures approximately 1,120 square miles (this is larger than Luxemberg) and the penguins are forced to trek 70 miles for food. The colony once had a population of 160,000 and it has shrunk to just 10,000 since 2011. These findings are based on research carried out by the Climate Change Research Center at Australia's University of New South Wales.
Incidentally, there have been penguins at Cape Dension for more than 100 years, but the outlook for the penguins remaining in the area is dire. In the opinion of scientists, the colony will vanish within 20 years unless the sea ice breaks up or the giant iceberg, dubbed B09B, is dislodged.
The iceberg B09B has apparently been floating close to the bay for 20 years before it finally crashed into a glacier and got stuck.


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