Australian scientists embark on wildlife mission:
"A team of Australian marine scientists will set off on a mission to investigate how much the food source for whales and penguins in the Southern Ocean will decline as water temperatures rise.
Chief investigator Andrew Constable will lead an international fleet that departs Hobart on Monday to study krill populations in the Kerguelen Axis, southwest of Australia.
As global temperatures rise, Dr Constable expects the cool-water critter's habitat to contract towards the Antarctic, meaning less food for wildlife such as seals, whales and penguins.
"This research is vital to Australia because we depend on this area for conservation and fisheries," he told reporters at the Macquarie Wharf in Hobart on Sunday."
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"A team of Australian marine scientists will set off on a mission to investigate how much the food source for whales and penguins in the Southern Ocean will decline as water temperatures rise.
Chief investigator Andrew Constable will lead an international fleet that departs Hobart on Monday to study krill populations in the Kerguelen Axis, southwest of Australia.
As global temperatures rise, Dr Constable expects the cool-water critter's habitat to contract towards the Antarctic, meaning less food for wildlife such as seals, whales and penguins.
"This research is vital to Australia because we depend on this area for conservation and fisheries," he told reporters at the Macquarie Wharf in Hobart on Sunday."
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