Media and Resources

Observer Workshop In Turkey. Bronwyn Maree. December 2018.

The art of science communication. Ross Wanless. November 2018.

African Penguin conservation research update. Andrew de Blocq. November 2018.

The last of the National Awareness Workshops. Nini van der Merwe. October 2018.

A happy return. Andrew de Blocq. September 2018.

Mouse Free Marion website launched. Nini van der Merwe. August 2018.

AS@S heads into the Indian Ocean. Andrew de Blocq. August 2018.

Tracking African Penguins on Robben Island. Andrew de Blocq. August 2018.

On the road with Ross. Ross Wanless. August 2018.

Avian flu in seabirds. Andrew de Blocq. July 2018.

Saving South Africa’s Penguins. Culture Trip. 16 January 2019.

Bird-brained scheme promotes faking it to save Happy Feet. Times Live. 15 January 2019.

SAfm radio interview on #JetSetBreakfast with Michelle Constant. 11 January 2019.

567 CapeTalk radio interview with John Maytham. 4 January 2019.

Decoy plan hatched for penguin nesting site. Weekend Argus/Saturday Star. December 2018.

African Penguin conservation: far from black and white. UNEP-AEWA. 4 December 2018.

New Report on the Impact of Plastic on Migratory Waterbirds Presented to Governments at AEWA MOP7. UNEP-AEWA. 8 December 2018.

Decoys deployed to perk up a colony. The Times of London. December 2018.

How a handful of conservationists are trying to save the endangered African Penguins. Travel and Leisure India. September 2018.

BirdLife South Africa reflects on the recently started Fiji Port-based Outreach Project. UN-FAO News. 9 May 2018.

Avian flu freezes coastal bird research in South Africa. Nature. 28 March 2018.

Seismic surveys risk to penguins. The Herald. 8 January 2018.

Seabird Observer Training workshops for Namibia and Indonesia. UN-FAO News. 11 Dec 2017.

Seabird National Awareness Workshops. UN-FAO News. 22 Sept 2017.

National Awareness Workshop – South Africa. UN-FAO News. 25 July 2017.

Sherley, RB, Barham, BJ, Barham, PJ, Campbell, KJ, Crawford, RJM, Grigg, J, Horswill, C, McInnes, A, Morris, TL, Pichegru, L, Steinfurth, A, Weller, F, Winker, H, Votier, SC. 2018. Bayesian inference reveals positive but subtle effects of experimental fishery closures on marine predator demographics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285: 20172443. PDF available here.

Sullivan BJ, Kibel B, Kibel P,  Yates O, Potts JM, Ingham B, Domingo A, Gianuca D, Jiménez S, Lebepe B, Maree BA, Neves T, Peppes F, Rasehlomi T, Silva‐Costa A & Wanless M. 2017. At-sea trialling of the Hookpod: a ‘one-stop’ mitigationsolution for seabird bycatch in pelagic longline fisheries. Animal Conservation 21: 159-167. PDF available here.

Crawford R, Ellenberg U, Frere E, Hagen C, Baird K, Brewin P, Crofts S, Glass J, Mattern T, Pompert J, Ross K, Kemper J, Ludynia K, Sherley RB, Steinfurth A, Suazo CG, Yorio P, Tamini L, Mangel JC, Bugoni L, Jiménez Uzcátegui G, Simeone A, Luna-Jorquera G, Gandini P, Woehler EJ, Pütz K, Dann P, Chiardia A, Small C. 2017. Tangled and drowned: a global review of penguin bycatch in fisheries. Endangered Species Research 34:373-396. PDF available here.

Silva MC, Matias R, Wanless RM, Ryan PG, Stephenson BM, Bolton M, Ferrand N & Coelho M. 2015. Understanding the mechanisms of anti-tropical divergence in the seabird White-faced Storm-petrel (Procellariiformes: Pelagodroma marina) using a multi-locus approach. Molecular Ecology 24: 3122-3137. PDF available here.

Wanless RM. 2015. Seabirds; a review of status, distribution and interaction with fisheries in the Southwest Indian Ocean. Chapter 10: 351-364. In: Van der Elst RP and Everett BI. 2015 (eds). Offshore fisheries of the Southwest Indian Ocean: their status and the impact on vulnerable species. Oceanographic Research Institute, Special Publication, 10. 448pp

Wanless RM & Maree BA. 2014. Problems and solutions for seabird bycatch in trawl fisheries. Animal Conservation 17: 534. PDF available here.

Maree BA, Wanless RM, Fairweather, TP, Sullivan BJ & Yates O. 2014. Significant reductions in mortality of threatened seabirds in a South African trawl fishery. Animal Conservation 17: 520-529. PDF available here.