Penguins can’t get enough to eat
23 May 2021
Extinction threat: The African penguins breed on islands off South Africa’s coast, including in the St Croix Island Reserve near the Coega River mouth. Photo: Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild/Getty Images
It was June 2000 and the
MV Treasure, a bulk iron ore carrier, had sunk between two key breeding islands for African penguins, Robben Island in Table Bay and Dassen Island near Cape Town, spilling 400 tonnes of bunker oil into the sea.
Now there is a new alarm bell ringing. Endangered African penguins are being pushed to the brink of extinction by food scarcity, oil spills, extreme weather, predation, sub-optimal breeding habitats and disease, according to scientists and various organisations.
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image captionJeff Thomas and Pauline Murray met on a blind date at a pub
A widow is due to marry her second soul mate at a care home after 18 years together.
Jeff Thomas, 72, has been living at Abbeydale Nursing Home in Derby since September after being diagnosed with incurable lung cancer.
He popped the question to Pauline Murray, also 72, last month.
The wedding is due to take place on Wednesday with a small number of guests after a special licence was granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The hastily-arranged service will be conducted by Reverend Peter Barham, the vicar of St Edmund s Church in Allestree, who successfully applied for the licence.