Ocean Sentry
Starving and dead little blue penguins are being reported on Waiheke Island and throughout the country. About 10 little blue penguin deaths have been reported to Waiheke Native Bird Rescue in the past 10 days.
January, 2018
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17 January
No-fishing zones could help African penguins, study suggests
African penguins‚ which are expected to be extinct by 2026 unless their decline is halted‚ can be helped by small no-fishing zones around their colonies‚ say scientists.
December, 2017
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16 December
Relocation staves off extinction for Hawaiian seabirds
Efforts by the Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project to protect two of Hawai’i’s most endangered seabirds are paying off.
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12 December
‘Worrying alarm call’ for world’s birds on brink of extinction
Overfishing and changing sea temperatures are pushing seabirds to the brink of extinction, according to new data on the world’s birds.
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5 December
Penguins under threat from drowning in fishing nets
Fishing nets pose a serious risk to the survival of penguin species, according to a new global review of the toll taken by “bycatch” from commercial fishing. Fourteen of the world’s 18 penguin species have been recorded as fishing bycatch.
November, 2017
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28 November
Puffin population plummet blamed on lack of food
Puffin numbers are plummeting as they struggle to find a source of food, new research has revealed.
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27 November
Fears for world’s rarest penguin as population plummets
Almost half the breeding population of the world’s most endangered penguin species, the yellow-eyed penguin, has disappeared in one part of New Zealand and conservation groups believe commercial fishing is to blame.
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23 November
Mercury decline in seabirds due to diet, not emissions controls
Mercury levels in the Pacific Ocean are now three to five times higher than they were before the industrial revolution. Our activities have released 1.5 million tonnes of mercury into the air, land and water bodies since 1850.
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21 November
Study pinpoints arctic shorebird decline
A new study co-authored by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) addresses concerns over the many Arctic shorebird populations in precipitous decline.
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21 November
Albatross populations in decline from fishing and environmental change
The populations of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses have halved over the last 35 years on sub-antarctic Bird Island according to a new study published today (20 November) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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19 November
China’s key role in international fight to save one of rarest birds in the world from extinction
A wetland in Jiangsu province – a vital stopover for the spoon-billed sandpiper on its migration south from Siberia – needs protecting against development, one of a number of threats to a species with under 250 breeding pairs left.
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17 November
Saving endangered African penguins
Competition with fisheries, oil spills, climate change, diseases and predators are all contributing factors in their dramatic population decline, which has been as high as 80 percent in some South African colonies.