African penguin’s description
Only penguin living on the African continent, I can swim up to 20kph ! It’s very useful to hunt anchovies and mackerels, my main preys.
About
55 000
Population
Very threatened
Threats
About 50 cm
Size
From 2.5 to 3.5 kg
Weight
Where does African penguin live ?
I form vast colonies on the islands and coasts of South Africa and Namibia.
Which threats ?
In 1910, 1,5 million of mine were still alive. In a century, my numbers dropped by 95% because of the trade of my eggs, successive oil spills and pollution. I could go extinct in the next 20 years.
Kiwiwho’s word to save the African penguin
Several organisations defend me : I benefit from fishing-free reserves, artificial nests easing my breeding and new techniques coming of help to heal me after the oil spills… But I don’t know if it will be enough.
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