Agence France-Presse: African penguins are disappearing at an alarming rate, as commercial fishing decimates food stocks and global warming affects breeding patterns, experts said Wednesday. “Last year there were only about 26,000 pairs of African Penguins left in southern Africa (this represents their global population) — a decline of about 121,000 breeding pairs since 1956,” read a statement issued after an international African penguin conference in Cape Town. Research presented at the …