I have just returned from a visit to South Africa. Although I was expecting to see any number of wild animals, the one experience I wasn’t expecting really amazed me. I waded in the South Atlantic ...

African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are found only in Namibia and South Africa. Their numbers have been declining since the 1800s. At that time, they were burnt in ships’ boilers, ...

Stony Point is home to a key African Penguin breeding colony but saw the number of breeding pairs nearly halve between 2023 and 2024. The colony is down to under 680 pairs. Stony Point is one of seven ...

Dyer Island, on South Africa’s east coast, used to be home to more than a million African penguins who nested in the 4-6 metre (13.19 ft) layer of guano that coated the island.

African penguins are among the world’s most endangered seabird species and face a high risk of extinction in the wild. Conservationists have been trying to provide artificial nests to maximize ...

Nine of the fluffed-up flood survivors were whisked off to SANCCOB’s care centre for some much-needed TLC and rehab. Two lucky chicks got the fairytale ending, reunited with their parents like a ...

With the help of a scarlet macaw, the National Aviary revealed the genders of its newest African penguins on Tuesday.

A penguin inside a cardboard box caused a helicopter crash in South Africa earlier this year, according to authorities. On Jan. 19, a pilot and three passengers transported a penguin back from ...

African penguins are a critically endangered species, and conservationists say that they could become extinct by 2035. Wild penguins are found in the coastal waters of South Africa and Namibia, ...

Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not all located in the Antarctic. There are penguins at the southern end of South America and South Africa and even at the equator.

Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not all located in the Antarctic. There are penguins at the southern end of South America and South Africa and even at the equator.