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This handout photo taken in 1982 and released on July 30, 2018 by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique) shows a two- million- strong king penguin colony on Ile aux Cochon, part of France’s Iles Crozet archipelago, situated roughly half way between the southern tip of Africa and Antarctica The world' s largest colony of king penguin has declined by nearly 90 percent in three decades, alarmed researchers said on July 30, 2018. The last time scientists set foot on France' s remote Ile aux Cochons the island was blanketed by two million of the flightless birds, which stand about a metre (three feet) tall. (Photo by Henri Weimerskirch/AFP Photo)
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