Otago Daily Times: Four New Zealand penguin species are to be given protected status under the US Endangered Species Act. The United States Interior Department will list as protected the yellow-eyed, white-flippered, Fiordland crested and erect-crested penguins, as well as the Humboldt penguin of Chile and Peru, it said in a statement. The US-based Centre for Biological Diversity petitioned for the protection of a dozen species in 2006, a year after screening of an immensely popular film, “March …