New Zealand yellow-eyed penguins face extinction

A new finding shows that New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguin, Megadyptes antipodes is facing extinction in 2060.

Accordingly, this latest study examines the various factors that lead to the decline of yellow-eyed penguins including factors such as climate change, rising sea surface temperatures, of which about one the third part of the yellow-eyed penguin population has plummeted. Other factors are difficult to distinguish, including conservation measures, as well as local conservation monitoring efforts.

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Thomas Mattern, a researcher at Otago University, said: " The problem is that we lack data to test the level of human impact, from fishing interaction, the emergence of predators to Human disturbance all contributes to this species of yellow-eyed penguin species' decline . - He said in a press release.

Despite the lack of data, new research published in PeerJ shows that two-thirds of these species are human-induced.

Penguins continue to be caught and drowned in fisherman's nets. In addition, their habitat is still degraded due to human activity, and penguins are frequently killed by unidentified toxins from exploitation, capture, and discharge.

" Now that we all know that yellow-eyed penguins are disappearing, we need to make a choice. Without immediate conservation measures, " the researchers wrote in the newly published article . , practical and effective, we will never see these penguins on the coast anymore . "

Other researchers say that warnings about the extinction of this yellow-eyed penguin are subjective because it does not consider the potential impact of other factors, such as the impact of disease on mortality. of birds. In 2013, 60 yellow-eyed penguins were found dead.

" Any further loss to yellow-eyed penguins will increase the risk of extinction in the area forever, " Mattern said.