{"id":5153,"date":"2019-09-06T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"ships-risky-fuel-transfers-are-threatening-african-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/06\/ships-risky-fuel-transfers-are-threatening-african-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ships\u2019 Risky Fuel Transfers Are Threatening African Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By\nThe Conversation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The African Penguin is in serious trouble. Its\npopulation has fallen by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2989\/1814232X.2011.572377\">more than 95%<\/a>&nbsp;over\nthe last century and, despite ongoing conservation efforts, its numbers\ncontinue to fall. There are now barely 20,000 breeding pairs in the world \u2013 and\nthe largest colony is in South Africa, on islands around Algoa Bay in the\ncountry\u2019s Eastern Cape province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several reasons for the decline in African\nPenguin numbers. Historically,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2989\/02577618409504370\">egg collecting<\/a>&nbsp;played\na major role in decreasing population numbers, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/S0959270913000671\">guano scraping<\/a>&nbsp;for\nfertiliser removed important nesting habitats. But today the main threat the\nAfrican Penguin faces is a shortage of the small fish it prefers to feed on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental changes coupled with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5343\/bms.2011.1145\">local overfishing<\/a>&nbsp;have\nseen the penguin\u2019s prey shift their range from the west coast upwelling region\nto South Africa\u2019s south coast. However, there are very few suitable breeding\nislands off the south coast, and that leaves the penguins with few safe\nbreeding locations. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ships-risky-fuel-transfers-are-threatening-african-penguins-121575\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Conversation The African Penguin is in serious trouble. Its population has fallen by&nbsp;more than 95%&nbsp;over the last century and, despite ongoing conservation efforts, its numbers continue to fall.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5154,"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-5153","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\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}