The African penguins residing on the Simon's City coast within the Western Cape area of South Africa are on the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) pink record of animals vulnerable to extinction.
The IUCN reported that the inhabitants in Namibia fell from 12,162 pairs in 1978 to five,800 in 2015, and the inhabitants in South Africa fell from roughly 70,000 pairs to 19,300. It’s acknowledged that the decline within the African penguin inhabitants in each international locations has exceeded 50 % in three generations.
The distinguishing options of African penguins are their black ft, pink markings overlaying the world between the beak and the attention, and black circles across the eyes that seem like a masks.
Vital causes for the inhabitants decline in African penguins are as follows: