Volunteers are putting nesting boxes and more native
plants on Granite Island at Victor Harbor in efforts to help stop a
decline in penguin numbers.
There were more than 2,000 penguins a decade ago, but just 146 counted last year.Tony Flaherty from the Natural Resources Management Board says people and feral animals may have driven the penguins away.
"What we're trying to manage are some of the land-based causes and ... particularly we know on [nearby] West Island there seems to be issues with weeds that may be smothering some of the penguin habitat there," he said.
"We're putting these nest boxes in the south-west area of Granite Island where historically penguins have used but some of the habitat's been degraded.
"There's been some erosion issues and other things so we're hoping by providing more areas for penguins to nest that we can help the penguin numbers recover."
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