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'African Penguins 🐧 are not magically disappearing — they are being pushed to the brink by human pressure on their food supply 🐟 and habitats.'

🗞Read this new Daily Maverick OpEd by BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 CEO, Mark Anderson & SANCCOB CEO, Natalie Maskell. 👇

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🚨 It's a slippery slope for the African Penguin 📉.

At their current rate of population decrease, conservationists predict that this iconic species 🐧 could be EXTINCT in the wild by 2035.

Help us take action: birdlife.org.za/african-pengui… 👈

SANCCOB #BiodiversityLawCentre

Just 25 years ago, there were 42,768 breeding pairs of African penguins in South Africa. Now. only 8,534 remain 🐧💔👇 #SaveTheAfricanPenguin

🐧 African Penguins need your help! 🚨

At their current rate of population decrease 📉, conservationists predict that this iconic species will be extinct in the wild by 2035 😢.

Unless we take action now: birdlife.org.za/african-pengui… 👈

ICYMI🎥: Last night on #ConservationConversations we were joined by PhD student, Benjamin Murphy who spoke about how Fork-tailed Drongos🐦 use behavioural strategies to conquer the Kalahari!😲🏜
Watch the full video here👉youtu.be/fe168GDq6rI.

🗞 Thanks to the Daily Maverick for helping us get the word out there about the current plight faced by the African Penguin 🐧: dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0… 👈.

WE'RE HIRING 🎉👇

BirdLife South Africa is looking for an Advocacy Officer to join our Policy & Advocacy Programme, in order to help give bird conservation a louder voice! 📣

⏰ Closing date: 13 April 2024

Read more: birdlife.org.za/who-we-are/vac…. 👈

Minister’s plan could wipe out African penguins, say scientists groundup.org.za/article/minste… via GroundUp SANCCOB BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 #environment

At the current rate of decline, African penguins may be extinct in the wild as soon as 2035.

African penguins & other seabird species are headed for extinction if nothing is done urgently by both the South African and Namibian gov's. BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 is taking their gov to court over not effectively protecting the penguins' main prey - sardines. 1/
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What a treat to read this lovely interview with Hazell Shokellu Thompson, one of my predecessors at BirdLife International, in the latest issue of BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 magazine. Hazell is one conservation’s greats & it was so good to be reminded of the early research he did in Gola Rainforest in 1980s.👏👏👏

Mark Anderson Jenny Parsons BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 Environmentza WWF South Africa SANCCOB Thank you Mark and BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 and its partners for doing your damnedest to turn this tide for African penguins.

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BirdLife South Africa now has 100 000 Facebook Group members. If you haven't joined us already, give us a chirp at facebook.com/groups/BirdLif… BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦

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Liz Bonnin 💙 I am an African Penguin GLOBAL PENGUIN SOCIETY
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Listen to an interview with Kate Handley, attorney at the Biodiversity Law Centre, about the legal action that
BirdLife South Africa 🇿🇦 and SANCCOB have instituted to try and save the African Penguin from going extinct. omny.fm/shows/safm-sun…