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The emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal are now classified as endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The reason is said to be climate change, which is rapidly deteriorating the animals' habitats. For the emperor penguin, melting sea ice is an acute threat – the species depends on stable ice to breed, and when the ice breaks up too early, many young die.

At the same time, the fur seal is affected by changes in the sea, where the availability of krill has been severely missed recently.

The IUCN warns that the development points to a major nature crisis, where climate change means that more and more species are at risk of extinction, and is now calling for rapid reductions in emissions.