S. Africa court bars fishing to protect endangered African Penguins

It is a bit ridiculous when it dandies on the shores of South Africa but extremely fast when it swims in the ocean. The manchot of Cape Town, a species in critical danger of extinction, will have respite... A court in Pretoria has just approved a very important legal agreement between the industrial fishing groups and the environmentalists to prohibit, for 10 years, fishing around six breeding areas of this black and white marine bird. A news th…

Court order imposes no-fishing zones to safeguard African penguins – The Mail & Guardian

All eyes are on Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Dion George and his department over how they will administer the implementation of no-fishing zones around six key African penguin breeding colonies. On Tuesday, BirdLife South Africa and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) secured a victory for the critically endangered seabirds when the high court in Pretoria issued an order of court after …

New England Aquarium opens penguin retirement home

African penguins are an endangered species with a life expectancy of 10 – 15 years in the wild. Penguins in the care of the New England Aquarium can live to twice that age. Like us, geriatric penguins need different levels of care, so the aquarium has created a separate island habitat for its older residents. — Read the rest The post New England Aquarium opens penguin retirement home appeared first on Boing Boing.

Settlement reached that might save the endangered African penguin

In a landmark order by the high court in Pretoria, no-take zones around six key breeding areas were secured

SEE | Breakthrough in African penguin case - industry, conservation groups agree on no-fishing zones

The details of a settlement reached in the African penguin case, calling for more stringent fishing closures, have been made public.

Settlement reached that might slow decline of African penguin population

BirdLife South Africa and the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) on Tuesday secured what they called a historic victory for South Africa’s critically endangered African penguins.