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latest news & developmentsKilling spree: Honey badger wipes out 11 endangered penguins at Cape reserve
Making the discovery was awful, said seabird conservationist at pioneering colony
Online sales drive illegal trade in endangered African grey parrots
The birds, which are native to equatorial Africa, have been decimated by the international pet trade
Meet the 2023 Bird of the Year
The Cape parrot is an endangered species largely because of human activity such as logging the forests where they are found
Shut-down of fishing around African penguin breeding colonies is ‘too little, too late’
Halting fishing will be of little to no benefit to the penguins and fishers believe it will be a sad Christmas
Pioneering project to help save African penguins takes off, bringing renewed hope for the endangered species
So far, 148 juvenile African penguins have been released at De Hoop Nature Reserve in a bid to establish a new breeding colony
Former quarry turned into haven for endangered UK birds
With its reedbed wetlands, the marshy plain of the Fens near Cambridge has become an attractive habitat for the bittern, which was, until 2015, on the United Kingdom’s red list…
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’
Wildlife farming vs Creecy’s panel
The departments of environment and agriculture legislation are at odds over modifying the genes of wild animals
Poaching is wiping out Africa’s elephants
Forest elephants are on the brink of extinction and savanna elephants are now classified as endangered
Hake fishing gets eco-label for fourth time
But endangered sharks and rays are falling through the net, and other imperilled species are being scooped up as bycatch, conservation groups warn
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