US EditionAfrica’s only penguin species is starving: Is there still hope?
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Africa’s only penguin species is starving: Is there still hope?
Overfishing and ecosystem disruption are leaving African penguins without enough food to survive. Their suffering signals a broader collapse in the ocean food web, but new policies and conservation efforts offer cautious hope for recovery.
African penguins, which attract tens of thousands of tourists annually in South Africa, have been framed since 2024 as “critically dangerous” by the International Union for Nature Conservation. Currently,...
African penguins are now considered a critically endangered species, with their population having declined dramatically in recent decades – from over a million a century ago to fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs today. The main cause of the population decline is the lack of staple foods such as sardines and anchovies, a result of overfishing by industrial fishing vessels and changes in the marine environment due to climate change. Research by scie…
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