Chinstrap Penguins in Antarctica

Chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island in Antarctica. Elephant Island is home to one of the world’s largest Chinstrap Penguin populations, yet it has only been ornithologically surveyed once in 1971, by a British Joint Services expedition. Greenpeace has partnered with penguin researchers from Stony Brook University and Northeastern University to study the impact of climate change on fragile chinstrap penguin colonies in Antarctica. The voyage to Antarctica is the last stop of the Protect the Oceans Expedition aimed at highlighting the threats facing our oceans and the urgent need for their protection under a new Global Ocean Treaty. (This picture was taken in 2020 during the Antarctic leg of the Pole to Pole expedition under the Dutch permit number RWS-2019/40813)