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Antarctica’s Emperor Penguins
December 30 , 2022
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- Antarctica has a unique species of plants and animals that can survive the coldest, windiest, highest and driest continent on Earth.
- These species include 2 flowering plants, hardy moss and lichens, numerous microbes, invertebrates and breeding seabirds like emperor and Adélie penguins.
- These animals and plants are threatened because of global warming and climate crisis.
- If the current conservation efforts remain the same, the population of 97 percent of Antarctic terrestrial species and breeding seabirds could decline between now and 2100.
- At the best-case scenario, 37 percent of the species would decline.
- Emperor penguins are at the risk of going extinct by 2100 in the worst-case scenario.
- It is the only species in the study that is facing this destiny.
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