Krill News/Media Resources

Press Releases:

• Press Release: The Start of the International Polar Year
  February 26, 2007
• Press Release: Stronger Protections for Antarctic Krill, Chilean Sea Bass
  November 3, 2006

Media contact:

Gerry Leape
Antarctic Krill Conservation Project
Pew Charitable Trusts
1025 F Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20004

Phone: 202.887.8800
Email: gleape@pewtrusts.org

Krill in the News:

• La CCRVMA y Krill: Aplicacion del enfoque ecosistemico en aguas Antarticas (CCAMLR and Krill: Application of the ecosystem approach in Antarctic waters) [PDF]
  Diplomacia: The magazine of the Chilian Foreign Office, (in Spanish)
  March, 2008



• A New Twist in Penguins’ Already Uncertain Future
  The New York Times,
  July 1, 2008



• Race for Antarctic krill a test for green management
  Reuters, May 25, 2008



• Tiny, pink crustaceans pose big questions in Antarctica
  E&E's Climate wire, April 14, 2008



• Antarctica is in crisis due to Krill bait
  Op-Ed, Cheonnam Ilbo, (in Korean)



• Penguins Helped and Hurt by Changing Climate
  NPR's All Things Considered, March 31, 2008



• Ice shelf collapse: What does it mean?
  CNN International, March 29, 2008



• Penguins on the brink?
  The News & Observer, March 24, 2008



• Krill fishing threatens the Antarctic
  The Observer, March 23, 2008



• Antarctica's Sea 'Babies' in Limbo
  NPR: All things Considered, March 18, 2008



• Hidden Depths: Antarctic krill startle deep-ocean scientists
  Science News, March 1, 2008



• King penguins could be wiped out by climate change: study
  AFP, February 11, 2008



• A Penguin Paradise, For Now
  CBS News, February 11, 2008



• Humans join hunt for Antarctica's "pink gold"
  Reuters, January 29, 2008



• ¿El año del Kril? (Is it the year of the Krill?) [PDF]
  Revista Redes & Seafood, (In Spanish) Jan/Feb 2008



• Licensed for Krill [PDF]
  Australian Antarctic Magazine, December 2007



• Ecologists fear huge rise in krill catch
  Jamaica Gleaner, November 5, 2007



• Bigger catch approved for Antarctic krill
  AEDT (ABC Online, Australia), November 3, 2007



• Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
  The Guardian, October 17, 2007



• Bloc of House Dems demands ESA listing for penguins
  Environment & Energy Daily, September 19, 2007



• Ocean Time Bomb
  The Sydney Morning Herald, September 12, 2007



• Ozone Crack Widens — Antarctic Hole Appears Earlier
  Jamaica Gleaner, August 29, 2007



• What can dying penguins tell us about the future of the planet?
  The Independent, August 20, 2007



• Antarctic Research - $4.5 Mil in Special Projects
  Foundation For Research Science And Technology, August 8, 2007



• Krill Industry Report
  Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, July 12, 2007



• Antarctic krill: Our little pals in a big fight
  Fredericksburg Freelance Star, April 07, 2007



• The Age Of Warming
  CBS News, April 01, 2007



• Welcome Korea's First Abroad Environmental Protection Area
  HanKyoRe, February 09, 2007



• Some happy that a family film flaunts dire facts
  The Boston Globe, December 06, 2006



• Vacuuming up penguin chow
  The News & Observer, December 01, 2006



• Not so happy penguins
  The Charlotte Observer, December 01, 2006



• The Ides of March of the Penguins
  Canadian Press, November 30, 2006



• 'Happy Feet' Not So Happy
  ABC News, November 28, 2006



• New technology threatens 'building blocks' of Antarctic Ecosystem
  Merco Press, November 24, 2006



• Killer Fish Farms [PDF]
  WEBDIARY, November 06, 2006
  En Español: Piscicultura asesina



• Pirates, vacuum-fishing threaten antarctic waters
  Reuters, October 19, 2006



• Press Briefing on protecting Antarctica's marine life [mp3, 3.88 megs],
  October 19, 2006
  Read the transcript [PDF]



• CCAMLR and Antarctic Krill: Ecosystem Management Around the Great White Continent [PDF]
  Sustainable Development Law & Policy, To appear in December issue



• Trawler 'poses threat to Antarctic life'
  The Daily Telegraph, September 25, 2006



• Oceans need our attention
  North County Times, September 19, 2006



• Tiny, innumerable, threatened
  International Herald Tribune, September 15, 2006
  En Español: Pequeño, Innumerable pero Amenazado [PDF]



• FIS on Norwegian Technology, "Little krill to make big profits for fishery tycoon,"
  ANTARCTICA, Friday, June 09, 2006



• "Antarctic Krill provide carbon sink in Southern Ocean,"
  British Antarctic Survey, February 7, 2006



• "You (and your brain)," by Andrew Weil, M.D.,
  Time Magazine, January 16, 2006



• "Voyages into the Antarctic Winter"
  Oceanus, April 25, 2005



• "Falling Krill numbers — due to sea-ice decline — 'threaten Antarctic wildlife',"
  British Antarctic Survey, November 4, 2004