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King penguins and glaciers (GSGSSI/PA) The entire land area of a remote UK overseas territory will be given protected status to conserve its rich wildlife, its government has said. The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) said it intends to designate the entire 3,800 square kilometre (nearly 1,500 square miles) landmass of the islands as terrestrial protected areas. It said the designation would complement the marine protected area around the islands which is five times larger than the UK and includes a 283,000 square kilometre (109,000 square mile) fully protec...

Full article Chilean Longliner, MV Mar Del Sur III hauling longliner. Following its five-yearly Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) assessment, the South Georgia Patagonian toothfish longline fishery has, for the third time, been certified as a sustainable and well-managed fishery, according to the newsletter from the government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The fishery is managed by GSGSSI with scientific advice and support from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Scien...

Mammoth Iceberg Jeopardizes Millions of Penguins Bigger than Rhode Island, it is closing in on remote Antarctic colonies of the birds, where it could interfere with their food Penguins on South Georgia Island in the Antarctic. alek komarnitsky/Reuters By Updated Dec. 19, 2020 9:43 am ET Iceberg A68a is big. Almost half the size of Jamaica. Three times the size of London. Larger than Rhode Island. And it is on the move. After breaking off from the Antarctic ice shelf three years ago, it is closing in on some of the world’s largest penguin colonies on...

» The world's largest iceberg is on track to crash into a small island, where it could wipe out a generation of penguin chicks and seal pups The world's largest iceberg is on track to crash into a small island, where it could wipe out a generation of penguin chicks and seal pups Morgan McFall-JohnsenDec 16, 2020, 05:01 IST A gentoo penguin with a newborn chick.Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The world's largest iceberg is drifting dangerously close to South Georgia Island, where millions of penguins and seals are breeding. If the animals' access to the ocean. If p...

World's Largest Iceberg on Track to Crash Into Island Haven For Penguins And Seals MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN, BUSINESS INSIDER 16 DECEMBER 2020 The world's largest iceberg might crash into an island populated by penguins and seals, which could cause mass starvation among the animals' young. The iceberg, dubbed A68a, broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf in 2017. It has been drifting north ever since, and now it's dangerously close to South Georgia Island. The area is a haven to millions of gentoo, macaroni, and king penguins, as well as fur seals and elephant seals.   Some bits of the glacier...