{"id":2590,"date":"2019-05-23T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"new-study-proves-penguins-are-key-indicators-of-ocean-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/23\/new-study-proves-penguins-are-key-indicators-of-ocean-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Proves Penguins Are Key Indicators of Ocean Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Aletta Harrison | <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/\"><strong>News24wire.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new study has proven\nthat African penguins benefit when there is a greater abundance of fish\navailable and it can be used to inform fisheries management in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The three-year study looked at a colony on Robben Island during a period when the area was closed to commercial fishing and monitored the health of the birds as well as the effects on the surrounding fish populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers fitted the adult penguins with small cameras for a rare glimpse into their underwater behaviour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study found a direct link between the abundance of anchovy and sardine, and the penguins&#8217; foraging behaviour and the condition of their offspring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Kate Campbell, who led the research at the University of Cape Town as part of her PhD project, said the closure of commercial fisheries created a &#8220;unique opportunity to study how African penguins directly respond to natural changes in local abundance of their prey &#8211; anchovies and sardines&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201905220541.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aletta Harrison | News24wire.com A new study has proven that African penguins benefit when there is a greater abundance of fish available and it can be used to inform&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}