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Climate change: Satellites find new colonies of Emperor penguins
Image copyright Copernicus Data/Sentinel/Esa Image caption Guano stains: A new colony on fast ice that has formed around grounded icebergs Satellite observations have found a raft of new Emperor penguin breeding sites in the Antarctic. The locations were identified from the way the birds’ poo, or guano, had stained large patches of sea-ice. The discovery …
Climate change: Emperor penguin ‘needs greater protection’
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Phil Trathan: “Emperors are iconic. I think people can relate to them.” Antarctica’s Emperor penguins could be in real difficulty come 2100 if the climate warms as expected. Experts say the birds raise their young on sea-ice and if this platform is greatly curtailed, as the …
Purple emperor butterfly makes ‘official’ Norfolk comeback
The UK’s second largest butterfly has “officially” returned to Norfolk after nearly half a century, experts have confirmed. The purple emperor was declared extinct in the county in the early 1970s and has declined by 31% across the UK in the last 10 years. “Thanks to… changes to the way we manage our woodlands, we’re …
