Island closures are painted as an economic cost to the fishing industry, but losing African Penguins will cost us dearly.

The Biodiversity Law Centre, which represents the groups, said the number of penguins had dwindled from 15,000 in 2018 to ...

By Shreya Dasgupta Conservation NGOs and commercial sardine and anchovy fisheries in South Africa have reached an ...

By agreement between all parties pelagic fishing permits must be amended within 14 days to protect six key penguin breeding ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the African Penguin critically endangered in October 2024. Conservationists say that 97 percent of the population is already lost and, at the ...

A South African court has barred commercial fishing at key breeding colonies for African penguins for 10 years.

Dr. Dion George, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, hailed the agreement as a landmark achievement in ...

In 2022, South Africa’s environment ministry imposed interim fishing closures around six key islands where penguins breed, to run until 2033. However, the NGOs BirdLife South Africa and the ...

Reports of assault were first reported last weekend by South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, which claimed to have seen a ...

A South African court order issued Tuesday barred for at least 10 years commercial fishing at key breeding colonies for ...

South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological ...

The new private island, separate from the main penguin colony, so far accommodates six aging African penguins, who range in ...