The Health Working Group, an initiative led by Dr Andres Barbosa within the Expert group on Birds and Marine Mammals has published an Information summary about Antarctic Wildlife Diseases on the Antarctic Environments portal. You can read it at https://www.environments.aq/information-summaries/antarctic-wildlife-diseases/.
Birds and Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM)
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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP), the Committee for Environment Protection (CEP) and the International… -
Obituary: Andrés Barbosa (1964-2023)
02 Feb 2023It is with deep sadness that SCAR has learnt of the recent death from cancer of Dr Andrés Barbosa. Dr Barbosa was a biologist and… -
Obituary: Dr. Daniel Gonzalez-Acuña
31 Dec 2020SCAR is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Daniel Gonzalez-Acuña after a sudden illness. Daniel was a member of the Chilean Antarctic Program… -
A new paper on the Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in Antarctic wildlife has been published in Science of the Total Environment. The work is an outcome of… -
The SCAR EG-BAMM Wildlife Health Monitoring group are hosting an online webinar to discuss past, present and future impacts on the Health of Polar Wildlife.… -
In a rapidly changing world, we need to know which areas of our planet warrant particular protection from existing, developing and forthcoming threats. This is… -
A new collaboration between Federation University Australia, the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) and the University of Western Australia will begin studying the health of Antarctic… -
April 2016 Update
01 Apr 2016The second RAATD meeting took place at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany. The RAATD team has brought together tracking data from 38 biologists from 11… -
NO! 150,000 penguins did not die overnight!
01 Feb 2016This is the title of the statement, published jointly by EGBAMM and Life Sciences, to clear up the misleading headlines about 150,000 Adelie penguins dying because of… -
The Health Working Group, an initiative led by Dr Andres Barbosa within the Expert group on Birds and Marine Mammals has published an Information summary…
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A workshop about microbial/parasite impacts on Antarctic wildlife will take place in Sydney, Australia, 3-7 August. The workshop will be hosted by Macquarie University’s Genes…
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The joint EG-ABI / EG-BAMM workshop on the RAATD project that took place at BELSPO in Brussels just ended. During the week around a dozen specialists…
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NEWS1 The second RAATD meeting took place at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst, Germany. The RAATD team has brought together tracking data from 38 biologists from…
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