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For nine months, the seal welfare and monitor team of our Marine Wildlife Management Programme in the V&A Waterfront has been trying to rescue a particularly elusive Cape fur seal, which had becom...

We're incredibly pleased to officially welcome Dr Judy Mann-Lang to the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation as its newly appointed Executive for Strategic Projects, where she will be overseeing research an...

Enjoy engaging and entertaining marine-themed puppet shows at the aquarium.

In celebration of Mandela Day 2022, the Two Oceans Aquarium team took to Red Cross Children’s Hospital to bring much-needed joy and sunshine to the cold and rainy morning! "Mandela Day is a day of giv...

Teamwork makes the dream work (cheesy, but true)! The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, uShaka Sea World and Bayworld (with assistance from East London Aquarium) teamed up for the release of three rehab...

Turtles live most comfortably in warmer water. Being reptiles, they regulate their body temperature according to the ambient water temperature. So, when the weaker hatchlings find themselves in cold w...

It's Plastic Free July, a month where people around the globe are challenged to say "no" to single-use plastics, and be part of reducing the plastic pollution that enters our ocean. Cutting out plasti...

Cape fur seals are playful and curious animals. Because of this, they are prone to becoming tangled in loops of plastic pollution or discarded fishing line, which they find interesting, or which may s...

We all know that children love to play. Play is vital for the healthy development of hand-eye coordination, creativity, imagination and even the moral and ethical compass. Back in the day, before plas...

Plastic pollution causes great harm to the organisms big and small that encounter it. From tiny corals to majestic whales, more than 700 marine species are known to be killed either by the ingestion o...

Marine plastic debris is one of the most pressing environmental concerns facing the world today. Animal entanglement, microplastic ingestion, bioaccumulation of toxins, endocrine system disruption in ...

Yoshi the loggerhead turtle is known by many titles: She's our world record holder and "Greatest-of-all-time" ocean ambassador. She's been referred to as the ultimate traveller, influencer, inspiratio...