Since highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) spread to the island of South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic in 2023, its ...

Alumna Stacy Jupiter (Ph.D. ’06, ecology and evolutionary biology) is the Executive Director of Marine Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Nearly half of the breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, a remote island near Antarctica, have died in a bird flu ...

Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant seals, according to a study that warns of “serious ...

The avian flu is devastating marine mammal populations. A new survey finds that nearly half of breeding females in the world's largest population of southern elephant seals were killed by the virus.

A study published in Communications Biology reports a marked decline in the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) population at South Georgia following the emergence of highly pathogenic avian ...

The CITES mission further applauded India's Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, as amended in 2022, which aligns fully with international obligations. The report places India in Category 1 under CITES' ...

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.