In the rich waters of South Africa's coasts, 6 key breeding colonies of the African penguin are now no-go zones for ...

The Biodiversity Law Centre, which represents the groups, said the number of penguins had dwindled from 15,000 in 2018 to ...

a designation covering species threatened with extinction. To continue selling birds abroad, breeders must now prove to CITES inspectors that their African grays are raised in captivity ...

Native to the forests of western Angola, red-crested turacos (Tauraco erythrolophus) are the first African bird species to inhabit the dome. Scarlet and Skittles, a female and a male, are also ...

WASHINGTON—Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the United States and around the world. A new study traces how the disease ...

Six penguins were initially moved to the retirement home: Boulders, Lambert, Harlequin, Durban, Isis and Dyer. The penguins ...

The fisheries department has two weeks to ensure the closure of no-fishing zones around six key penguin breeding areas.

African vulture populations have declined by 80%–97% over the past 50 or so years, so preventing further losses in the ...

The deaths of adult seabirds are of great concern as most species only start to breed at 3 to 10 years of age, and most ...

Wild migratory birds, from pelicans to peregrine falcons, carried bird flu from Asia to Europe, then on to Africa and the ...

The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion Island.