Population crash means African penguins are now critically endangered

Mongabay
Nov 4, 2024, 12:31 am82 ptsTrending
Africa’s only resident penguin species is now officially critically endangered, according to a recent assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Over the past century, the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) has suffered precipitous declines in its population. In the mid-1950s,…

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