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African penguins are critically endangered, their colonies reduced by 70 percent in the last decade. Commercial fishing is to blame, emptying the penguins’ ocean range of the small, schooling fish that are their main food source. With penguin chicks’ growth and health in crisis, a hands-on rescue strategy could sustain struggling colonies while conservationists work to ensure the species’ survival.

Science Bulletins is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology (NCSLET), part of the Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History.

Related Links

PLOS ONE: Hand-Rearing, Release and Survival of African Penguin Chicks Abandoned Before Independence by Moulting Parents
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0110794

The Chick Bolstering Project
http://www.sanccob.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26:chick-bolstering-project&catid=5:projects&Itemid=37

Dyer Island Conservation Trust: African Penguins
http://www.dict.org.za/penguins.php

IUCN Redlist: African Penguin
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22697810/0

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