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Penguin expert talks about mission to save the African penguin

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published July 13, 2026 at 8:59 AM PDT
A group of African penguins standing on the rocks at the New England Aquarium. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
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A group of African penguins standing on the rocks at the New England Aquarium. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with New England Aquarium penguin manager Diana Major about an international effort to save the African penguin from becoming functionally extinct within 10 years.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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