Commercial fishing blamed for the crash in numbers of yellow-eyed penguin on a sanctuary island in New ZealandAlmost half the breeding population of the world's most endangered penguin species, the yellow-eyed penguin, has disappeared in one part of New Zealand and conservation groups believe commercial fishing is to blame.The yellow-eyed penguin is endemic to New Zealand's South Island and sub-Antarctic islands, where there are just 1,600 to 1,800 left in the wild, down from nearly 7,000 in 2000. Continue reading...
Fears for world's rarest penguin as population plummets
27. listopadu 2017 5:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/27/population-worlds-rarest-penguins-plummets-yellow-eyed-new-zealand
Zdroj: The Guardian