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On Tuesday morning, 4 February, the conservation team of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, with the support of the Aquarium's Collections team and Hooked on Africa Charters, headed out from Hout Bay to release four very special survivors. These four endangered loggerhead turtles arrived at the Aquarium's sea turtle rescue, rehabilitation and release centre with very different stories...

The Two Oceans Aquarium has one special resident living in the Penguin Exhibit - the only bird here that can fly! Rita is an old seabird with an amazing life story - why is this "odd bird out" at the Aquarium. Here's her incredible story...

On the evening of 7 March 2020 the Two Oceans Aquarium, in partnership with the UCT Underwater Club, will be hosting an exciting public event all about scuba diving, called Diver24.

Stranded sea turtles have no hope - unless you become a turtle rescue hero!From 17 to 28 February 2020, a team of nine passionate conservationists, aquarists and turtle-lovers from the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation and the Two Oceans Aquarium will be taking to the road to visit the communities of South Africa's Southern Cape coast - communities with members who will likely become the future life-savers of stranded sea turtle hatchlings in the upcoming stranding season.

For the past two years, Zahraa Schroeder and her colleagues of Radio 786 has spent many a day recording at the Two Oceans Aquarium. The inserts were aired on Monday afternoons, and were known as “Aquarium Mondays”. The end of 2019 also saw Aquarium Mondays come to an end, let's look back on some of the highlights of these two years...

AVENUE at the Two Oceans Aquarium is a Cape Town conference and events venue with unique meeting areas for business, casual and private meetings, as well as a spectacular viewing window of the Two Oceans Aquarium's I&J Ocean Exhibit.

You've definitely heard of Yoshi - she's the amazing loggerhead turtle that was released from the Two Oceans Aquarium two years ago and has gone on to become an international celebrity - her ocean journey since release has become the longest-ever recorded journey of any tracked marine animal ever. She has traveled 37 000 kilometres in the 26 months since her release in December 2017. Throughout her journey, Yoshi has averaged and maintained a swimming distance of 48 kilometres per day. The latest tracking data shows that she has slowed down slightly and is now clocking in at about 46 kilometres per day. At this stage, we can only speculate why - perhaps she is preparing to mate? However, during the past two years, Yoshi has moved into coastal areas a number of times to feed (typical Yoshi), so this may simply be another pitstop along her journey.

World Wetlands Day is celebrated internationally on 2 February. The day is used to raise awareness about the vital importance of wetlands to people and the planet. The day also marks the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands in 1971. The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation celebrates this day with a week of positive action and hands-on workshops in and around the beautiful wetland habitats of the Cape.

The Two Oceans Aquarium’s Environmental Education Centre offers a series of wonderful, free enrichment courses through our recently revamped Marine Sciences Academy. One of them is the Junior Smart Living Course for grade 7s, which is coming up in June and July this year. This course introduces "sustainability" – participants will explore this concept through the thematic pillars of waste, water, energy and biodiversity.

Picking the perfect gift for a child isn't always easy. On one hand, it's important to find something fun and interactive, but on the other hand, you may want a gift that will help your little one learn something new and discover more fascinating reasons to keep exploring. The Two Oceans Aquarium's Puppet Stories children's books tick all those boxes!

Living in an environment that is "sustainable for all life" was a huge thematic focus for World Wildlife Day 2020. We tend to think of this as protecting plants and animals that live in natural environments, but what happens to wildlife that has already been displaced or had its natural habitat replaced by an artificial, human-made one?Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Marine Wildlife Manager Brett Glasby and Seal Monitor Ayanda Cimoni met up with the team from the V&A Waterfront's Table Bay Hotel to share with them information about the wildlife found in the V&A Waterfront, to pick up some litter, and to get to know some of our local seals a little better (the Table Bay Hotel's mascot is Oscar the Seal after all).

Due to the seriousness of the global COVID-19 pandemic and in light of the requests and recommendations made by the office of the Presidency of South Africa, the Two Oceans Aquarium will temporarily close its doors to the public from Wednesday 18 March until further notice. This will be the first time the Two Oceans Aquarium has closed since Christmas Day in 1996.