African Penguins Have Almost Been Wiped Out by Overfishing and Climate Change. Researchers Want to Orchestrate a Comeback – Inside Climate News
![African penguins in the Stony Point Nature Reserve. About 30 minutes south, on the magnificent R44 Clarence Drive, from Gordon's Bay, July 13, 2020 (by Gilbert Sopakuwa CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED via Flickr).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/50106965233_69d302332a_c-798x599.jpg)
A hatchery in Cape Town breeds birds for release in a newly established sanctuary for penguins 146 miles east, where a few early signs suggest the penguins may have found a new home..
Surfers, miners fight over South Africa’s white beaches – PHYS.ORG
![Satellite view of the Olifants River Estuary, South Africa (image via Google Earth: Maxar Technologies AfriCIS(Pty) Ltd CNES / Airbus Data SIO, NOAA; U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO Terrametrics).](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Olifants-River-Estuary-West-Coast-SAfrica-798x672.jpg)
Diamonds, zircon and other minerals have long been extracted in the sandy coastline near the Olifants river, which flows into the Atlantic about 300 kilometres (180 miles) north of Cape Town.
But plans to expand the mining have angered surfers, animal lovers and residents in this remote, sparsely populated region—and they are pushing back with lawsuits and petitions.
Black Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; By Andrew Cooper
![Black Rock, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa](https://coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/201003-botm-black-rock.jpg)
On the northeast coast of South Africa, one of the longest and most beautiful beaches in the world runs unbroken for 150 km between the inlets of the St. Lucia and Kosi Estuaries.