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The crisis is so severe the species could disappear in the wild as soon as 2035 if severe measures are not taken to ensure their survival - and the Springwatch presenter says she 'can’t imagine them not being here'

African penguins could disappear in the wild as soon as 2035 - as numbers have dropped from over one million breeding pairs in the 1900s to less than 10,000 today - a decline of 95%