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African Penguins in Peril

10,000 Birds

An African Penguin peers protectively around its fluffy chick. The early threats of guano harvesting and egg collecting have been replaced by the more ominous threats of oil pollution and overfishing of their favorite food source – pilchards. Cape Gulls are the single most devastating avian predator of young penguins and eggs.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

In some regions of the world, the carnivore landscape is taken up by many different cats at the middle and larger range, and by things like civets and mongoose at the smaller end. For the same reason that other invasive do better than the natives, feral Cats outhunt native predators, and native prey are not as protected against them.