DEAD IN THE WATER OP-ED: Silent crisis — starving penguins, dying sardines and a government gambling with species extinction

Daily Maverick · 2026-10-11T23:20:41.000Z · Politics

South Africa celebrated a landmark agreement to protect African penguins from food scarcity. Eighteen months later, penguins are losing weight, sardines have died along thousands of kilometres of coastline and commercial fishing has continued before the government even knows how many fish remain.

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