Let's Go Feed Some African Penguins!

About this episode

Kristen and Asher explore the world of African penguins and their conservation efforts in South Africa.

All aboard the Culture Train. This week, Kristen and Asher travel to sunny South Africa to meet some very special coastal residents, African penguins. On this adventure, Culture Kids learn that not all penguins live in icy places. African penguins live along warm, sandy beaches and rocky coastlines in southern Africa. We visit SANCCOB, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, where we meet Lisa Faith, an education supervisor and real life penguin protector. SANCCOB is like a hospital for seabirds, rescuing injured and orphaned African penguins, helping them heal, and preparing them to return safely to the ocean. Along the way, Culture Kids discover why African penguins are critically endangered and what that means for their future. We learn how SANCCOB began over 50 years ago when a woman named Althea turned her own bathroom into a penguin wash station after an oil spill, and how today the organization has helped more than 100,000 seabirds. Asher even gets to help feed real African penguins, meeting penguins named Sammy and Batman, and learning how each penguin’s belly spots are as unique as fingerprints. This episode is full of fun facts and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kristen, Asher

Guest: Lisa Faith

Topics covered

• African penguins
• conservation
• education
• wildlife rescue
• endangered species

Keywords

• African penguins
• SANCCOB
• conservation
• endangered species
• wildlife rescue
• education
• ocean

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SANCCOB, Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds

Places: South Africa, coastal, southern Africa

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