South Africa) contains archaeological deposits demonstrating persistent and continuous human occupation spanning from Late ...

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...

Bird flu has been found in elephant and fur seals near Antarctica in what are the region’s first cases of infected mammals. The UK’s Animal Plant Health Agency (Apha) said it has been testing ...

The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to ...

The Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella, would be hunted to the verge of extinction. The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great numbers for the oil rendered from ...

Already there is some evidence that macaroni penguins and fur seals may be finding it harder ... food resource," Simeon Hill from the British Antarctic Survey told BBC News. The study is published ...

fur seals, brown skuas, kelp gulls and Antarctic terns. BAS operates two research stations on South Georgia: King Edward Point and Bird Island. As a result of the confirmed cases of HPAI ...

Species which have historically tested positive for HPAI H5N1 include: brown skua, kelp gul, wandering albatross, elephant seal and Antarctic fur seal. The most recent results from samples taken ...