African penguins are critically endangered, their colonies reduced by 70 percent in the last decade. Commercial fishing is to blame, emptying the penguins’ ocean range of the small, schooling fish that are their main food source. With penguin chicks’ growth and health in crisis, a hands-on rescue strategy could sustain struggling colonies while conservationists work to ensure the species’ survival.
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Related Links
PLOS ONE: Hand-Rearing, Release and Survival of African Penguin Chicks Abandoned Before Independence by Moulting Parents
plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0110794
The Chick Bolstering Project
sanccob.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:chick-bolstering-project&catid=5:projects&Itemid=37
Dyer Island Conservation Trust: African Penguins
dict.org.za/penguins.php
IUCN Redlist: African Penguin
iucnredlist.org/details/22697810/0
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