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 ...

Southern elephant seals are the "canary in the coal mine" for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may ...

The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion Island.

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 ...