Bloomberg An island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, where half of the world’s wandering albatrosses breed, is under threat from a fast-spreading strain of bird flu.
High pathogenicity avian influenza, or HPAI, is suspected to have reached Marion Island, one of two sub-Antarctic Islands, controlled by South Africa, the country’s environment department said in a statement on Tuesday. It’s possibly causing the death of birds from at least three species on the island — brown skuas, wandering albatrosses and southern giant petrels.
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