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New regulations are in place in a bid to protect the critically endangered African penguin from the harms caused by shipping. Photo: John Yeld

Saving the African penguin is a noisy affair

New regulations put in place strict rules, including seasonal restrictions and spill prevention measures, to balance penguin conservation with shipping

New regulations are in place in a bid to protect the critically endangered African penguin from the harms caused by shipping. Photo: John Yeld

Legal delays threaten survival of African Penguins, say conservation groups

Activists say that the litigation to protect the birds’ feeding grounds has been dragged out for months by the state, despite the urgency of the situation

A group of African penguins are seen during a rehabilitation session in Cape Town, South Africa on March 22, 2022. African penguins, whose populations have fallen sharply in the last century, may become extinct in the next few decades, experts say. File photo by Murat Ozgur Guvendik/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Creecy hauled to court over ‘irrational’ closures around penguin colonies

The closures sound the ‘death knell’ for the seabirds

Marine turtles are critically endangered. (Photo by Anton Raharjo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The world’s migratory species are vanishing from land, skies and seas

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For islands to qualify as suitable for penguins, they needed to offer protection from land-based predators and had to be surrounded by suitable foraging grounds for sardine and anchovy within a 20km radius. Supplied

African penguin population decline began 20 000 years ago – study

Rising sea levels since the last Ice Age forced them to ‘island hop’ or move to the mainland, which presents an opportunity for their surviva

Deliberate and unintentional poisoning with pesticides and animal drugs, collision with power lines and habitat change are driving down the numbers of several species of vultures. (Photo by Patrice Correia / Biosphoto / Biosphoto via AFP)

Creecy’s plan to save South Africa’s imperilled vulture population

Deliberate and unintentional poisoning with pesticides and animal drugs, collision with power lines and habitat change are driving down the numbers of several species

Caring for God’s creation: Bishop Geoff Davies and his wife Kate started the multi-faith organisation, the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute. Photo: David Harrison

God is an environmentalist, says South Africa’s ‘green bishop’

God is the creator, the greatest sin is extinction of species and profit is driving our destruction, says Bishop Geoff Davies

At risk: Cycads in Cape Town’s Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens. The ‘living fossils’ are high value in the illegal plant trade. Photo: Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Poachers steal cycads from people’s gardens for lucrative illicit trade

Residents must have permits to have the endangered plants but they are victim to criminal demand for the ‘living fossils’

Extinction threat: The African penguins breed on islands off South Africa’s coast, including in the St Croix Island Reserve near the Coega River mouth. Photo: Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild/Getty Images

Penguins can’t get enough to eat

The causes include commercial fishing near their colonies and a scarcity of sardines and anchovies

Climate change threatens survival of endemic species the most

If Earth warms by 3°C, a third of species living on land and about half of endemic marine species will become extinct

Nearly half of South Africa’s Protea species on the brink of extinction

Loss of habitat to agriculture, the spread of invasive species and changes to natural fire cycles are biggest culprits

Work provider: Wetlands are natural water filters and provide trillions of dollars in services annually and a livelihood for about a billion people.  (Henri Tabarant/AFP)

Our wonderful wetlands need protection now

Humanity is amazed by our natural world but fails to value its importance to our survival

(John McCann/M&G)

Grass roots of Ice-Age extinctions

Mammoths and sabre-tooth cats once roamed the continent, but were our ancient ancestors responsible for their disappearance?

We’re killing off life, but there is hope

Sipho Kings reports on the findings of a mega government report on the state of our plants and animals, and what’s being done to secure their future

Deforestation and agriculture, including livestock production, account for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, and have wreaked havoc on natural ecosystems as well. (Carl de Souza/AFP)

One million species risk extinction due to humans — draft UN report

Biodiversity loss and global warming are closely linked, according to the 44-page Summary for Policy Makers

(John McCann/M&G)

Climate change claims its first mammal extinction

Climate change has eaten away at the only known habitat where the rodent had evolved to live

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Editorial: Our moment of reckoning is now

‘At the M&G we have committed to redoubling efforts to ensure we offer even greater prominence to the threat of climate change’

Fossil teeth reveal new facts about a mass extinction 260 million years ago

A study has found that a local event rather than a global shift in climate caused the mass extinction in South Africa

The Southern Ice team hopes to capture icebergs that have drifted northward to Gough Island

Hunters should stop using lead bullets and help save the vultures

A new threat to vultures is emerging: lead poisoning from ammunition used by game hunters

Not able to cope with the unusually warm temperatures due to climate change

Why coral reefs are important and why they are dying

​More than 11 billion pieces of plastic larger than five centimetres wide are littering coral reefs across the Asia-Pacific region