SPECIES IN CRISIS: Creecy has new plan to halt rapid decline of African penguin

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A 2013 biodiversity management plan to save the endangered species has failed to arrest the population drop. Now, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy is seeking public comment on a fresh draft.

August 8, 2022

Creecy has new plan to halt rapid decline of African penguin by Tembile Sgqolana, Daily Maverick August 8, 2022 African penguins once churned up the water in great numbers on South Africa’s west coast. Now they are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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