The message was clear: ‘Hoot for Penguins!’ and Cape Town obliged on a recent Saturday morning. All along the Main Road - from Surfer’s Corner in Muizenberg to Boulder’s Beach in Simon’s Town - a large group of waddlers walked the talk in the name of penguin preservation. From four-year olds to senior citizens, the level of excitement and pride the entire way was contagious, … [Read more...]
Hurray for South Africa’s biodiversity!
The United Nations designated 2011 - 2020 as the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. The word is dropped into conversations daily, but we don't know how much it actually means for South Africa. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem like our planet earth. It gives an indication of the health of ecosystems: the more natural the … [Read more...]
Waddle you do to help save the African penguin?
Numbers of the African penguin, which is endemic to South Africa and Namibia, are rapidly declining. Perhaps most of us aren't aware of this, but African penguins are up against climate change, overfishing, oil pollution and penguin egg and guano collection. Less than 5% of the original population remains. In the past half-century, numbers have declined by 80%. In the last … [Read more...]
