site.btaBulgarian Antarctic Institute Celebrates Penguin Awareness Day

On January 20, the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute celebrates Penguin Awareness Day, which aims to make the public more aware about the behaviour of those birds, their habitat, and the factors threatening them with extinction, the Institute said on Facebook.

"These are perhaps among the cutest, most interesting and curious non-flying birds on the planet, among which all of us polar explorers love to work," the Institute said.

The participants in the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica also pay attention to the life of penguins. In a BTA interview, musician and music editor Marina Velikova, who is part of the expedition, said the focus of her work will be to record the sounds of Antarctica, including the sounds of penguins.

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During the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica, which started on November 8, 2023, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is publishing video interviews with Antarctic researchers. Video journalist Emil Granicharov, Senior Editor at BTA, will document the work of the researchers in video diaries. BTA presents all scientific projects with videos, photos and texts prepared before the scientists' departure.

The Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA's Log again provides coverage of the voyage of the Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii to Antarctica and back and its stay there, as it did during the 31st expedition between December 27, 2022 and May 2, 2023. Back then, only BTA had a correspondent, Daily News Editor Konstantin Karagyozov, who covered the 127-day expedition with text, video and photos during the entire voyage (including across the Atlantic in both directions) and throughout the stay in Antarctica. In June 2023, BTA published in Bulgarian and in English an issue of its LIK magazine "To Antarctica and Back under the Bulgarian Flag" dedicated to the historic expedition. 

All of BTA's information on the Bulgarian scientific research in Antarctica and the support provided by the Bulgarian naval research vessel, as well as on the other activities at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, will be available to all media outlets in Bulgarian and in English on BTA's website in the Bulgaria - Antarctica: BTA's Log section.

BTA has a National Press Club on board the ship and is planning to open a National Press Club at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island.