Nelson Mandela Bay’s African penguins drowning in noise
Driven by ship-to-ship bunkering, the underwater noise in Algoa Bay doubled in seven years — and in that time African penguin numbers decreased 85%.
That is the key finding of a new study that for the first time probes the effect of underwater noise pollution on a seabird, and the consequence of bunkering in this regard...
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