Endangered king penguins disappear 90% of their population in 30 years

A study of the main habitat of the King Penguin, the second-largest species in the Penguin family, has shown a shocking 90-percent reduction in population over the past 30 years.

The number of King Penguins living on the French island of Pig, on the southern Indian Ocean, is currently only about 200,000, the BBC and Guardian said on Friday.

King Penguin is the second largest species on earth after the Emperor Penguin, and its main habitat is Pygmy Island. In 1980, the population of King Penguin was estimated to be about 2 million.

\"We surveyed the population of King penguins through images of satellites and helicopters,\" said Dr. Henri Whiske Kishu, a researcher at the French Institute of Biology. \"This is where one-third of King penguins live in the world. I did not expect it at all. \"

The result of this project is that the population of King Penguin has been declining rapidly. The researchers did not find a clear answer yet, but they cited El Niño as the \"suspect\". El Niño, which means baby Jesus in Spanish, is an unusual sea-warming phenomenon and is one of the factors that have the greatest impact on the global climate today. In particular, the researchers think that the temperature of seawater around the Pygmy Islands rises as the toxic El Niño phenomenon occurred in the late 1990s, and that the skein or squid, which is the pungent pang of King Penguin, moved to other places.

\"It would have been very difficult for the king penguin to breed and raise the kitten as the prey was rapidly decreasing,\" said Dr. Wimesh Kishu. \"A sudden decrease in food could lead to an unprecedented rate of population decline.\" \"There is also a large number of people in addition to El Niño,\" he said. \"There may be other causes, such as bird flu, so additional research is needed to determine the exact cause.\"

On the other hand, the bleak picture of the future of King Penguin was published in a thesis in February. The University of Strasbourg and the National Institute of Scientific Research (CNRS) have reported that King Penguins in Antarctica may disappear by the end of the century due to climate change and overfishing. In this report, the researchers analyzed that climate change could change the environment of the Antarctic, causing 70% of King penguins to disappear or seek new habitats.