Recently I had the privilege of listening to seabird scientist Professor Lorien Pichegru talk at the monthly Know-Your-Bay event at Bayworld on the extinction threat to the African penguin.
Two African penguin chicks have emerged from their nest beneath a boulder at a site in South Africa where conservationists have used lifelike decoy penguins and broadcast penguin calls to entice adult penguins to breed. Christina Hagen, the Pamela Isdell Fellow of Penguin Conservation at BirdLife South Africa, who leads the project, was on one […]
Since the first African Penguin Biodiversity Management Plan gazetted in 2013, major efforts have been made to identify and attend to all possible threats affecting penguins' breeding success and survival, writes Lorien Pichegru.