Half the world's threatened penguin species live around New Zealand, and Forest & Bird is calling on the Government to protect them.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated 10 of the world's 18 penguin species were in decline, and Forest & Bird said five of them lived and bred in New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic islands.
In co-ordination with BirdLife International's Global Penguin Campaign launch, Forest & Bird has called for a national penguin recovery group, similar to the successful kiwi one, to combat the decline.
The Campbell Island population of the eastern rockhopper, once the largest in New Zealand, crashed by 94 per cent over a 45-year period to 1985 and has never recovered, Forest & Bird says.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimated 10 of the world's 18 penguin species were in decline, and Forest & Bird said five of them lived and bred in New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic islands.
In co-ordination with BirdLife International's Global Penguin Campaign launch, Forest & Bird has called for a national penguin recovery group, similar to the successful kiwi one, to combat the decline.
The Campbell Island population of the eastern rockhopper, once the largest in New Zealand, crashed by 94 per cent over a 45-year period to 1985 and has never recovered, Forest & Bird says.
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