active monitoring

The UBA assesses whether a planned project or journey to Antarctica poses a threat to animal species or their populations. However, the current state of knowledge about whales in Antarctica is limited. UBA is therefore providing funding for projects to close these knowledge gaps.

Climate changes along the Antarctic Peninsula are affecting penguin populations across vast areas. The phenomenon can only be tracked on a large-scale with the help of remote sensing. The Federal Environment Agency is campaigning for a system of international penguin monitoring and has already gained some promising experience with possible monitoring methods.