Conservation groups challenge minister’s decision on no-fishing zones around penguin colonies. Conservation groups want new “sweet spot” no-fishing zones around African Penguin breeding ...

Scientifically, African penguins are known as Spheniscus demersus. They’ve also been given the monikers South African penguin, jackass penguin (because they sometimes bray like a donkey), black-footed ...

All parties have now filed their legal papers for next month's crucial High Court hearing which may determine the fate of the critically endangered African Penguin. Former environment minister Barbara ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Zoo announced the hatching of its second African penguin chick since the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the species as critically endangered ...

Making matters even more urgent is that since the first papers in this case were filed in January last year, the conservation status of the African Penguin has been uplisted from "endangered" to ...

All parties have now filed their legal papers for next month’s crucial high court hearing which may determine the fate of the critically endangered African Penguin. Former environment minister Barbara ...

Between 18-20 March 2025, a legal battle will unfold in the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria over the fate of the critically endangered African penguin, with conservation groups ...

The Tulsa Zoo welcomed two new African penguin chicks to its colony earlier this year. The zoo partners with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) to create a species survival plan and ...

The birds, which are Africa’s only native penguin species, are on track to go extinct in the wild within the next decade because of climate threats and dwindling food sources. In an effort to ...