Braying Penguins to Get More Fish in Bid to Head Off Extinction
- South Africa imposes fishing limits around penguin colonies
- Jackass penguins could be extinct by 2035 if decline continues
Penguins in Simon's Town near Cape Town, South Africa.
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South Africa will limit commercial fishing around key African penguin colonies in a bid to halt a decline in the population of the birds that could result in them becoming extinct within 12 years.
The birds, endemic to South Africa and Namibia, have seen their population slump to about 10,000 breeding pairs from more than a million a century ago, Barbara Creecy, South Africa’s environment minister, said in a statement on Friday.