The largest colony of king penguins on earth has significantly decreased by about 90 per cent over the last thirty years based on the reports from scientists who till now find the reason for it to be a suspense.
On an island in the Indian Ocean, there is a colony named Ile Aux Cochons that people know about since 1960. This colony was known to be the largest colony of king penguins in the world and second largest among all penguins. But since no one could reach there easily, one could not know the exact size of the colony.
Some scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the French Polar System took some high-resolution satellite images that could easily help them record the changes in the colony’s size in the year 1982. The colony at that time had two million penguins and five lakh pairs for breeding. Now, the number has dropped to 60,000 penguins pairs.