African penguins compete with fishing vessels for fish

African Penguins might go extinct in the next 10 years if threats like commercial purse-seine fishing are not tackled effectively.

Shuchita Jha

African #penguins are now listed as Critically Endangered on the #iucn Red List after the number of breeding pairs dropped to 10K in 2023. Factors like shortage of #food, #warming #sea temperatures, changing #ocean currents affecting prey distribution, and competition with commercial purse-seine #fishing is leading to further decline in their population. Efforts to establish more no-fishing zones need to be ramped up as further population decline might lead to disruption in the #marine ecosystem.

Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

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Shuchita Jha

Shuchita is a journalist with over 10 years of experience. Her work, in multimedia format, focuses on the interconnectedness of the environment, climate change, energy transition, and human rights. She is an accredited Solutions Journalism trainer.

Manon Verchot

Manon is a multimedia journalist and co-founder of InOldNews, the organization that runs Neighbird. She formerly headed video at Mongabay, Hindustan Times and Mint.

Sanshey Biswas

Starting his career as a print journalist in '14 at a weekly newspaper in India, he quickly gravitated to working on the digital side. He is a self-taught multimedia journalist who loves to learn from and with his colleagues spread across the globes.