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Latest from SANCCOB

📰 Update · May 6

Meaningful Wildlife Preparedness Requires More Than a Name on a Plan

📰 Update · Mar 7

Improving African Penguin Conservation Through Data-Driven Body Condition Monitoring

📰 Update · Feb 3

This is a developing story: FV Western Star fire and sinking

📰 Update · Jan 30

Coastal Tar Ball Sightings: What the Public Needs to Know

📰 Update · Jan 14

This is a developing story: FV Silver Dorado fire and grounded late on 12 January 2026.

📰 Update · Dec 12

Mass Abandonment of Endangered Cape Cormorants

📰 Update · Dec 12

Bird Flu Outbreak Affects African Penguins

📰 Update · Nov 12

SANCCOB Reinforces Biosecurity Measures Amid Avian Influenza Threat to Seabirds

SANCCOB — Saving Africa's Penguins, One Bird at a Time

Ocean Life

🇿🇦 South Africa

South Africa's seabird hospital has treated over 100,000 birds as the African penguin slides toward extinction.

108.7kbirdsSeabirds admitted since 1968
81%African penguin release rate
10kchicksPenguin chicks hand-reared (2006-2022)
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