Officials of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and BirdLife International in Cambridge, England, said the atlas contains the most accurate maps ever assembled for the Patagonian Sea region, revealing key migratory corridors for penguins, albatrosses, sea lions and other marine animals.
Data for the atlas was gathered by a team of 25 scientists during a 10-year period, using radio collars and satellites to track 16 species of marine animals, producing some 280,000 individual uplinks of data over the Patagonian Sea, which covers 1.1 million square miles from southern Brazil to southern Chile.
Called Atlas of the Patagonian Sea: Species and Spaces, the 300-page book -- available in English and Spanish -- was edited by Valeria Falabella and Claudio Campagna of the Wildlife Conservation Society, and John Croxall of Birdlife International.
"This unprecedented atlas was essentially written by the wildlife that live in the Patagonian Sea," said Campagna who runs the Wildlife Conservation Society's "Sea and Sky" initiative. "The atlas helps fill in many gaps of knowledge and should serve as a blueprint for future conservation efforts in this region."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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