/ 24 September 2022

Shut-down of fishing around African penguin breeding colonies is ‘too little, too late’

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Dassen Island Nature Reserve, South Africa, An island in the Atalntic Ocean, 10km west of Yzerfontein, north of Cape Town (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Halting fishing will be of little to no benefit to the penguins and fishers believe it will be a sad Christmas

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