South Africa is preparing a large-scale operation to eliminate mice on Marion Island. Helicopters will drop 550 tons of ...

Along South America's windswept southern coast, Magellanic penguins have spent decades nesting in relative safety. For much of the twentieth century, sheep ranching dominated the region, and pumas ...

Some Argentinian penguins are experiencing high levels of predation from pumas recolonising their historical territory. A new study has quantified the risk on long-term penguin population survival.

Lead author Melisa Lera, a postgraduate student at WildCRU, Oxford University said, "The number of carcasses showing signs of predation we found in the colony is overwhelming, and the fact that they ...