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It’s been 600 days since Nobomvu, our fiery loggerhead turtle, returned to the ocean after two gruelling years of rehabilitation.

Our Turtle Conservation Centre released Bokkie, the brave amputee green turtle, on 21 October 2024 into the warm waters of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Marine Protected Area. After an intensive rehab...

At the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's Turtle Conservation Centre, our dedicated team rescues, rehabilitates, and releases five of the world’s seven turtle species. Tagging is an invaluable tool for ...

It’s been 543 days since Nobomvu, the loggerhead turtle, was released into the warm waters off Cape Point. Fondly known to the Turtle Conservation Centre team as our “Red Lady”, Nobomvu has had a fasc...

For the past six months, researchers at Upwell and Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation have had an opportunity that is still novel in the world of sea turtle research: To track juvenile turtles at sea.

It’s been 451 days since Nobomvu, a female loggerhead turtle, returned to the wild after being successfully rehabilitated at the Turtle Conservation Centre. What a journey she’s had! She’s covered an ...

This is our Turtle Conservation Centre’s first turtle tracking update of 2025! What an exciting opportunity to be able to track our satellite-tagged turtles for another loop around the sun. Let's hear...

Just 50 days ago, Bokkie was released into the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and recently crossed the border from Kosi Bay into Mozambique! To gain some perspective on where Bokkie is now exploring, we re...

In late October, a collaborative team of researchers from Two Oceans Aquarium and Upwell took a boat into the swift Agulhas Current, the southwest boundary current of the Indian Ocean that runs down t...

Many of our turtle community have been keeping up with the exciting tracking updates of Bheni, a green turtle that underwent just over a year of rehabilitation at our Turtle Conservation Centre. Bheni...

It's time for your favourite kind of turtle news – Bokkie’s first satellite tracking update! We’re sharing some fascinating insights from the travels of Bokkie, the green turtle, and Nobomvu, the logg...

In the last month, our satellite-tagged turtles at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre have been making waves! While both Bheni and Nobomvu were released around the same ti...