Penguin trainer Nick Vitale unlocks a door to a small cinderblock room. It's chilly, with buzzing fluorescent lights and a roaring ventilation fan. Also, it smells like fish. The perfect penguin love ...

Artificial nests can boost the breeding success of endangered African penguins, but different designs are more effective at different colonies according to a new study. Artificial nests can boost the ...

Experts say stricter fishing limits will be crucial if Africa’s only penguin is to survive. For now, conservationists hope ...

South African researchers plan to release scores of abandoned, hand-reared African penguin chicks at the Western Cape's De Hoop nature reserve, boosting efforts to start a new breeding colony of the ...

Admission is free and open to all who wish to raise awareness around African penguin conservation. Ensure that you wear comfortable walking shoes and that you bring your own water and snacks in ...

Conservationists are making a Valentine’s Day plea to protect African penguins that can mate for life. The birds, which are Africa’s only native penguin species, are on track to go extinct in the wild ...

PRETORIA, December 1. /TASS/. Serious decline in the number of African penguins’ breeding pairs threatens the species with total extinction by 2036, BirdLife South Africa’s Communications Manager Kurt ...

BALTIMORE - Maryland Zoo's Bird Curator Jen Kottyan has been appointed to lead the national breeding and population management initiative for African penguins. As the Program Leader for the African ...

Here’s a spot of happy Friday news for you: the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California, has recently seen a bounty of African penguin chicks hatching – and, predictably, they are 100 percent ...

The Racine Zoo announced the hatching of an African Penguin chick. The chick was born on May 3. The penguin now weighs roughly 5 ½ pounds. RACINE, Wis. - The Racine Zoo's staff announced on Thursday, ...

Artificial nests can boost the breeding success of endangered African penguins, but different designs are more effective at different colonies according to a new study by an international team of ...