Conservationists step up anti-fox effort after attack on Sydney penguin colony

Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife wants to install motion-sensing cameras, a thermal camera and flashing-light fox deterrents

Conservationists want to install motion-sensing cameras and fox-deterring lights at the last mainland penguin colony in New South Wales, after a fox killed 27 of the endangered birds in just 11 days.

In June, a fox discovered the colony of little penguins in the Sydney suburb of Manly, resulting in carnage. There were just 60 breeding pairs in the colony before the attacks.