Critically Endangered Species
latest news & developments
African penguins starving
New study finds that some SA populations are estimated to have fallen 95% in only eight years
Conservationists fight for scientifically-informed fishing closures to ensure African penguin survival
The applicants argue that the forestry, fisheries and environment minister’s interim fishing closures are ‘biologically meaningless’
South Africa’s blue swallow and African penguin in critical decline
Conservation efforts pay off for the southern bald ibis, now downlisted to near threatened after decades of protection
Why Mozambique is tracking Dugong movements with satellite technology
Interest in dugong conservation is surging beyond Mozambique, with regional initiatives being launched to protect the sea mammals
Roads decimate West Africa’s chimpanzee population
The species face mounting pressure from roads and infrastructure development in Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone
Critically endangered blue whale washes up in Walvis Bay
First-ever recorded stranding in more than 30 years in Namibia, South Africa and probably the continent