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Gqeberha Valentines Adoptions
Gqeberha Valentines Adoptions
Adopt a Home Pen Penguin For R1000 Adopt one of the penguin 'characters' below and help cover the cost of providing an excellent quality of life for birds that cannot be released back into the wild. You are welcome to visit ‘your’ penguin between 9am and 4pm for the one-year duration of your adoption. Please
Support The Rangers
Support The Rangers
Feed The African Penguins
Feed The African Penguins
Donate Today 💙
Donate Today 💙
Adopt an African penguin 🐧
Adopt an African penguin 🐧
Adopt And NameAny Penguin Of Your Choice For R600 It's the perfect gift and you'll be helping us give them the very best chance to return back to the wild. You'll receive an email with a Certificate of Adoption and a special letter of thanks from 'your' penguin. Your donation helps cover the cost of
African Penguin Still at Risk, Warns SANCCOB
African Penguin Still at Risk, Warns SANCCOB
Photo Credit: Martine Viljoen
High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) Outbreak in South African Seabirds – 2025
High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) Outbreak in South African Seabirds – 2025
At least nine critically endangered wild African Penguins have now died from bird flu. The outbreak of the disease, also called high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) has already killed over 1000 South African seabirds since July. HPAI affects the brain leading to unusual behaviour, twitches and seizures. Although HPAI occasionally infects mammals and humans, the
Donations for Dooneese
Donations for Dooneese
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Pledge: Donate Monthly
High Court victory for the Critically Endangered African Penguin
High Court victory for the Critically Endangered African Penguin
Settlement secures biologically meaningful foraging areas for African Penguins for next decade to help bring the species back from the brink of extinction. BirdLife South Africa and SANCCOB today secured a historic victory for South Africa’s Critically Endangered African Penguin when the Pretoria High Court issued an order of court after a hard-won settlement agreement
Effects of Oil on Wildlife Conference
Effects of Oil on Wildlife Conference
October 13 – 17, 2025, Cape Town
African Penguin newly classified as ‘critically endangered’ as breeding pairs fall below 10,000 - SANCCOB
African Penguin newly classified as ‘critically endangered’ as breeding pairs fall below 10,000 - SANCCOB
Lonely Penguin by Andries Janse Van Rensburg The International Union for Conservation of Nature [IUCN] has uplisted the African Penguin from Endangered to Critically Endangered, underscoring the species' extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. The bird has already lost 97% of its population and could be extinct in less than 4,000 days if
African Penguin Socio Economic Report 14 October 2024
African Penguin Socio Economic Report 14 October 2024
SANCCOB Website
SANCCOB Website
EOW 2025: A Milestone Gathering in Oiled Wildlife Response https://youtu.be/cHxJaKfyl7A The 15th Effects of Oil on Wildlife (EOW) Conference, hosted by SANCCOB and Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research, concluded in Cape Town with outstanding success, marking the first time the conference has been held on African soil. Follow our updates here. SANCCOB is a registered
Become a member! 🤩
Become a member! 🤩
Whether you donate time, talent, items or cash, you can make a difference to the survival of the critically endangered African Penguin and other seabirds in distress. Ways To Get Involved Any way that you can assist will aid SANCCOB and whether it's financial or gifts-in-kind, your support is appreciated. Adopt A Penguin Adopt and
Save African penguins campaign film
Become an intern or a volunteer 🤩
Become an intern or a volunteer 🤩
Local and overseas volunteers play an integral part in operations at our Table View (Western Cape) and Gqeberha (Eastern Cape) centres, providing thousands of hours of much-needed conservation work on a daily basis. Volunteers must be over the age of 18, hard working and passionate about saving seabirds. For under 18 years: In Cape Town,
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