Antarctic penguins losing to climate change through 80% krill decline

Well, if humans stopped ripping out more than 500.00 tonnes (and rapidly growing) of Krill every year, there would be a lot more to go around.

Carl Clifford

On 14/04/2011, at 9:35 AM, Ian May wrote:

My point is you can’t have your Krill and eat it too.

Nikolas Haass wrote:

> Any details? Which “pelagic sea birds”? Which “whales”? Species? > Numbers? Rather than a terribly superficial statement? > —————- > Nikolas Haass > nhaass@yahoo.com > Sydney, NSW > ________________________________ > From: Ian May > To: Laurie Knight > Cc: Birding Aus > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:35 PM > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Antarctic penguins losing to climate > change through 80% krill decline > Very unlikely scenario. > Rather than negative climate impacts or human fishing scenarios > causing an 80% decline of Krill, it is more likely that the massive > expansion of whale populations are depleting the Krill biomass. > We are observing pelagic sea bird declines and there is a > correlation where whale populations are increasing. > Ian May > Laurie Knight wrote: >> see http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0411-hance_penguin_krill.html >> http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55223 >> =============================== >> >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, >> send the message: >> unsubscribe >> (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) >> to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au >> >> http://birding-aus.org >> =============================== >> >> >> —– >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG – www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3569 – Release Date: >> 04/12/11 >> >> > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > =============================== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > —– > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG – www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3569 – Release Date: > 04/12/11 ===============================

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