A South African court has barred commercial fishing at key breeding colonies for African penguins for 10 years.

The agreement establishes critical island closures to protect South Africa’s penguin ... managed conservation nodes such as Stony Point Nature Reserve, Dyer Island, and Dassen Island.

It said the agreement, reached between the commercial small pelagic fishing industry, BirdLife South Africa and the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob), ...

Other zones are the uninhabited Dassen Island, further up South Africa's Atlantic coast, and the Stony Point nature reserve. "This order of court is an historic victory in the ongoing battle to ...