African Penguin has become the first penguin species in the world to be listed as Critically Endangered by the International ...

First, the continuing decline of the African penguin population sees it in a dire situation. Second, this needs to be ...

The destruction of African penguins' nesting habitat over the centuries has been partly repaired by setting up artificial nests in penguin colonies. New research has found that these improve the ...

Dr McInnes, a seabird conservationist for BirdLife South Africa, is part of the team monitoring the country’s dwindling penguin colonies. The African penguin – which is native to South Africa ...

to implement biologically meaningless closures to fishing around key African penguin breeding colonies which they said do not safeguard their food source. The species faces numerous survival ...

The African penguin, or Spheniscus demersus ... A decline of predators on the mainland led to the establishment of two colonies near Cape Town in the 1980s. However, they aren’t so safe in ...

Authorities have imposed a commercial fishing ban on around six penguin colonies for 10 years ... what does IUCN’s listing of the African penguin as critically endangered mean?

Sixty-three endangered African penguins have been killed by a swarm of bees in a rare occurrence near Cape Town, bird conservationists in South Africa say. The protected birds, from a colony in ...

The South African black-footed penguin is endangered, with wild populations declining by 8% annually. Cameron Park Zoo’s colony is the largest in Texas and 11th-largest nationwide, positioning ...