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As an African first, fourteen juvenile loggerhead turtles were tagged and released back into the ocean on 20 January 2024 as part of an international research project. While releases of rehabilitated ...

South Africans worldwide are sure to remember the feeling when our national rugby team, the Springboks, won the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2023. Well, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turt...

Nobomvu, the loggerhead turtle, was released into the ocean after two years of rehabilitation with the Turtle Conservation Centre! Now, our Red Lady has sent in her first satellite tracking update! Le...

Many of our turtle community members may not know that our Turtle Conservation Centre works closely with a doctor not of turtles but of humans… Dr Peter Berndt, a Radiologist at Winelands Radiology! P...

On 22 December 2023, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre released Nobomvu, a loggerhead turtle, off the Cape Point coast into the warm Agulhas Current. Nobomvu was fitted w...

Finally, the tracking news you've been waiting for: Bheni the green turtle's first update! Let's hear more about Bheni, Pan (a loggerhead turtle), and Turbo, (a green turtle) from Talitha Noble, Conse...

Visitors to the Two Oceans Aquarium may not realise that the I&J Ocean Exhibit plays a central role in the work of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre! At any given tim...

On Friday, 8 December 2023, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conservation Centre released Bheni the green turtle into the waters of De Hoop Nature Reserve.

No more than two in a thousand loggerhead turtles survive into adulthood. Rehabilitating every single one of the stranded turtles rescued by members of the public and brought to us for care is critica...

In October and November, Marine Wildlife Management Programme (MWMP) Assistant, Martine Viljoen, assisted the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment (DFFE)’s Oceans and Coast team with the...

The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Marine Wildlife Management Programme (MWMP) regularly disentangles Cape fur seals in the V&A Waterfront precinct. Let's find out how!

We've got some exciting updates from Pan and Turbo, two of our little turtle travellers. Let's hear more from Talitha Noble, Conservation Manager at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conserv...