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25 Apr 2019

Collapse of huge emperor penguin colony feared – with no chicks expected to hatch for fourth year

Special Correspondent and Presenter

Scientists studying the Antarctic’s second largest colony of emperor penguins have warned that, for the fourth year in a row it looks like almost no chicks will hatch.

The collapse of the breeding colony at Halley Bay has been blamed on the break-up of the sea ice that the birds live on during the breeding season and, as Fatima Manji reports, this looks like an unprecedented development.