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Happy World Penguin Day 2018!

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So far 2018 has been a good year for penguins — a “supercolony” of 1.5 million Adélie penguins was discovered in the Danger Islands, thanks to a drone that was able to find them. This is fantastic news for Adélies, whose populations have been in serious decline on the western Antarctic peninsula, but it doesn’t mean …

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It’s Penguin Awareness Day!

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January 20 is Penguin Awareness Day, and it’s more important than ever that we celebrate (and work to protect) these amazing animals. If you’ve read My Last Continent, you’ve met the Adélie, gentoo, chinstrap, emperor, and Magellanic penguins. If you’ve read The Tourist Trail, you got to know Magellanic penguins very well. Last November, John …

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