Greenpeace Antarctica Tour 1997

Penguin decline around Palmer station

Torgerson Island Torgerson Island

Torgerson Island, near the US Palmer Station in the Antarctic Peninsula. The island is home to thousands of breeding pairs of Adelie penguins whose numbers, according to research carried out by Professor Fraser over the past 20 years, are declining as a result of changes to their habitat brought about by global warming. Adelie penguin populations around Palmer Station have fallen from around 15,200 breeding pairs in 1975 to a current 9,200 pairs.

Read the Greenpeace Press Release

For more information on penguin population decline.