TNPSC Thervupettagam

African Penguin Conservation

March 28 , 2025 3 days 86 0
  • South Africa has established measures to protect six crucial breeding sites in an effort to save the African penguin from extinction.
  • The court has imposed a 10-year ban on commercial fishing around the breeding colonies.
  • African penguins are very smaller than Emperor penguins and found exclusively in southern Africa.
  • At the current rate of decline, these unique birds could be extinct in the wild by 2035.

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