South Africa has announced a landmark 10-year agreement establishing no-fishing zones around six critical African penguin ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Zoo is welcoming a special guest for World Ocean Day! On June 8, an African Penguin ...

This, combined with other threats such as egg poaching, overfishing and climate change, has caused African penguin populations to plummet. In 2019, there were thought to be less than 20,000 ...

In October 2024, the African penguin became the first penguin species in the world to be listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This is a sad ...

Over the past century, African penguin populations have plummeted, dropping from around one million breeding pairs in the early 1900s to less than 10,000 in 2023 as environmental conditions have ...

Mr. Greedy, a prolific penguin dad at the Maryland Zoo, has died at 33, leaving behind a longtime partner and 230 descendants. The African penguin, who helped keep his endangered species alive ...

DENVER (KDVR) — An African penguin chick was successfully hatched at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance in October, and zoo workers plan to introduce the critically endangered animal to the ...

BOSTON -- Two new African penguins have joined the rest of the penguin colony at the New England Aquarium in Boston following months of care behind the scenes. The chicks hatched in March and are ...

An African penguin from the Maryland Zoo, who helped produce over 200 offspring as part of the zoo’s species survival plan, has died at 33. Mr. Greedy was euthanized last week following a ...

After a celebrated, decades-long career as one of North America’s most reproductively successful members of an endangered species, African penguin No. 821 — known fondly as Mr. Greedy — has ...

An African penguin named “Mr. Greedy” died at Baltimore's Maryland Zoo last week at the age of 33, surpassing his species’ median life expectancy of 18 years. His secret to longevity?

An African penguin who left many offspring in his long life, he belonged to the largest colony of the aquatic bird species in North America, according to the zoo. By Hank Sanders The popular ...