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H5N1 flu is now killing birds on the continent of Antarctica
A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds ...
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Avian Influenza confirmed in Bird Island; South Georgia introduces stringent bio-security measures
The scavenger brown skuas populations on Bird Island, South Georgia Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in brown skua populations on Bird Island, South Georgia. In response ...
The waters once ran red with whale blood - now South Georgia is a conservation success story
South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...
What we learnt flying over the world's largest iceberg A23a - and why it's not long for this world
Flying over the massive iceberg, it's indistinguishable from the horizon. But as it melts, chunks of ice risk floating ...
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Avian influenza H5N1 in subantarctic region raise alert level for Australian islands
French scientists say the H5N1 strain of avian influenza travelled more than 5,000 kilometres from South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic Ocean to the Crozet and Kerguelen Islands in the ...