Internationally, October 12 is recognized as African Penguin Awareness Day. South Africans are painfully aware that our beloved "tuxedoed locals" might face extinction in the wild within the next few years. That’s why we are celebrating another milestone at the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary (APSS). Vuka Lou, an African Penguin, returns to her home colony on Dyer Island after 153 [...]
Help us rescue, feed and rehabilitate our 2022 batch of African penguin chicks. On Saturday 5 November, the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary - APSS, with the help of CapeNature retrieved 48 African penguin chicks from Dyer Island. Another 16 penguin chicks were removed from the island on Tuesday 8 November. The chicks are currently at the sanctuary where they will [...]
What do canned trophy hunting, deadly infectious diseases and Traditional Chinese Medicine have in common? Lions. The new investigative documentary, Lions, Bones & Bullets uncovers an elaborate, international wildlife fraud with an annual turnover of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars. On Tuesday 1 November, Marine Dynamics and Dyer Island Conservation Trust, hosted our final Marine Evening for 2022, with the screening [...]
