As fish disappear, African penguins are being pushed into direct competition with fishing fleets, deepening their fight for survival.

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with ...

Quick Take African penguins faced an eight-year die-off from 2004 to 2011, with about 62,000 adults dying mainly from ...

JOHANNESBURG - Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds. "We don't rush... we go down, sometimes ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa—A weathered, green building stands at the edge of the cozy suburban Table View neighborhood in Cape Town, just a few blocks down from a Burger King and a community library.

Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds. "We don't rush... we go down, sometimes we crawl, so ...

With just 10,000 breeding pairs left, the endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) could be extinct in the wild by 2035 if the current rate of population decline continues. To protect the bird ...

Lorien Pichegru is affiliated with Nelson Mandela University and receives funding from the NRF. Alistair McInnes receives funding from the Charl van der Merwe Trust. He works for BirdLife South Africa ...