Why Antarctica Depends on This Little Creature I Climate Heroes

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Antarctica is best known for whales, penguins, and seals, but this vast and fragile ecosystem depends on a far smaller resident: krill. Around 400 million tons live in the Southern Ocean, where they provide a valuable food source and remove damaging CO2 from the atmosphere.

Despite their huge numbers, krill are at risk: from climate change and a rapidly expanding fishing industry. Why have humans spent decades harvesting them? What do omega 3 capsules have to do with it? How did one special krill teach science about their importance? And what might the decline of these small crustaceans do to our planet?

Our THANKS for some special krill insights and footage go to
🦐Blue Whale Study
🦐© Australian Antarctic Division (https://www.antarctica.gov.au/)
🦐Javier Arata, Association of Responsible Krill harvesting companies ARK, and AKER BioMarine for allowing filming on their vessels.

If you want to see more about the Association of Responsible Krill harvest companies, ARK, check out their website: https://www.ark-krill.org/media

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🔗 Scientific sources:

Australian Antarctic Program
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-a...

PEW Trusts; „Scientists Deploy New Technology to Determine Krill Activity on East Antarctic Seafloor“
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research...

British Antarctic Survey
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/kril...

ResearchGate; „Why Krill Swarms Are Important to the Global Climate“https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Book: “The Curious Life of Krill“
https://islandpress.org/books/curious... (author Stephen Nicol)

Semantic Scholar; “Biology and Ecology of Antarctic Krill“
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...

CCAMLR; Krill fisheries and sustainability
https://www.ccamlr.org/en/fisheries/k...

ScienceDirect; Research funding and economic aspects of the Antarctic krill fishery
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022...

Kawaguchi & Nicol_2007_AS_Learning krill from fishery.pdf (this was direct from So Kawaguchi)

Krafft et al_2021_JCB_Area 48 Synoptic Survey 2019 copy.pdf (from So)

ARK (Association of Responsible Krill Harvesting Companies)
https://www.ark-krill.org

1MD Nurtition; “Is Krill Oil Good for Your Health? Here's What the Scientists Say“
https://1md.org/article/krill-oil-for...

National Library of Medicine; „Krill Oil for Cardiovascular Risk Prevention: Is It for Real?“
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Nature; „The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles“
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...

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