Important marine areas for endangered African penguins before and after the crucial stage of moulting

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Carpenter-Kling, Tegan, de Blocq, Andrew, Hagen, Christina, Harding, Craig, Morris, Taryn, Pichegru, Lorien, Roberts, Jennifer, Ryan, Peter G., Wanless, Ross M., McInnes, Alistair
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
• Subjects: Article; Bird Island; Stony Point
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177839/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12969-w

The population of the Endangered African penguin Spheniscus demersus has decreased by > 65% in the last 20 years. A major driver of this decrease has been the reduced availability of their principal prey, sardine Sardinops sagax and anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus. To date, conservation efforts to...