Projects

Educators Workshops

SANCCOB’s Educators training workshops are making a huge difference by sharing practical lessons and well-equipped resource packs for teachers from previously disadvantaged areas in South Africa. The value of the programme lies in the quality of the teaching and the ‘leave-behind’ resource box of tools which the educators can use for a variety of lessons and which really expands their ability to teach.

Science on the Boat is a programme specially designed for children from poorer communities who have little or no interaction with the conservation of the ocean and the creatures that depend on it. Through the programme they get to be Ocean Doctors for a day and decide whether the ocean is healthy and what action to take to ensure future health. The programme runs over two days in an environment which stimulates learning through hands-on experience.

Dr. Katta Ludynia project ‘Winter migration in Cape Gannets from Namibia’ is investigating whether Cape Gannets from Namibia overwinter off the coast of Angola, where they forage and how much time they spend flying or swimming during the non-breeding season to help to determine possible threats to the species during the non-breeding season and will help to put conservation measures in place.

Burgher’s Walk Restoration Project – a project with co-existence at the heart!
Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world are charmed by the wild African penguins which breed within the borders of Boulder’s colony in Simon’s Town under the protection of SANParks. Right next door a group of penguins are breeding on unprotected public land. The Burgher’s Walk Restoration Project is a co-ordinated plan to protect them from curious public, from predation by domestic animals and to protect them from being run over by cars speeding along the road above the site.

Health Survey

Health survey of free-living and captive seabirds in South Africa, with special emphasis on the endangered African penguin (Speniscus demersus)
In the light of the drastic decline of seabird numbers, and the change in their distribution in the recent 100 years, SANCCOB acknowledged the need to launch a first-time ever surveillance study of the overall health of seabird populations along the Southern African coastline.

Chick Bolstering Project

sancobb_chick_bolstering The Chick Bolstering Project, is a multi-partner project which contributes towards saving the African penguin, through bolstering abandoned and weak chicks and rearing chicks from eggs. The research element of the project focuses on foraging behaviour of juvenile penguins, and a long term goal of the project is to establish the viability of an artificial colony for African penguins along the South African coast line.

Educators Workshops

Science on the Boat

Gannet Research

Burghers Walk Project

Health Survey

Chick Bolstering Project

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