Conservationists fight for scientifically-informed fishing closures to ensure African penguin survival – The Mail & Guardian

Conservationists fight for scientifically-informed fishing closures to ensure African penguin survival – The Mail & Guardian

Former minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment Barbara Creecy “took a gamble on the extinction of the African penguin” by disregarding the recommendations of a panel of international experts on the appropriate approach for delineating fishing closures around their key breeding colonies. By allowing the continuation of “inadequate” interim closures, the then-minister “opted to convert a half-baked temporary solution into a long-term o…