150K penguins killed by iceberg in Antarctica
Around 150,000 Adelie penguins have been killed by a giant iceberg that got stuck near their colony in Antarctica and cut off their food source.
According to research carried out by the Climate Change Research Center at Australia’s University of New South Wales, the giant iceberg became stuck in Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay in 2010, rendering the penguins landlocked.
Since then the penguins have been forced to travel around 60 kilometers in order to catch fish. The long and arduous trek has had a devastating effect on the colony’s population.
“The arrival of iceberg B09B in Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, and subsequent fast ice expansion has dramatically increased the distance Adélie penguins breeding at Cape Denison must travel in search of food,” said the research team.
Since 2011, the population has been reduced from 160,000 to 10,000 and unless the 2,900 square kilometer iceberg breaks up, the colony will be fully gone in 20 years.
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