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On 5 December 2024, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Conservation Centre team released four rehabilitated sub-adult turtles into the De Hoop Marine Protected Area (MPA). Solé and Plum (gree...

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...

Our Turtle Conservation Centre released 75 post-hatchling loggerhead turtles into the warm waters off Cape Point last week! After nearly eight months of rehabilitation, the turtles were strong, health...

No more than two in a thousand loggerhead turtles survive into adulthood. Rehabilitating every single one of the stranded turtles rescued by members of the public and brought to us for care is critica...

The festive season has arrived! This year, we want to encourage our Aquarium family to think “blue” by giving meaningful gifts that don’t promote excess consumerism. The Two Oceans Aquarium is among t...

Tahirah Naicker might come across as an ordinary South African teenager who will be writing her matric exams in 2025. But it just takes a little bit of conversation and a look at her National Geograph...

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...

Visitors to the Two Oceans Aquarium may be familiar with Nori, a green turtle currently housed in the I&J Ocean Exhibit. Nori has been undergoing rehabilitation with our Turtle Conservation Centre...

On 13 November 1995, the Two Oceans Aquarium opened its doors for the very first time. Today, we celebrate 29 incredible years of being a hub of Cape Town's ocean tourism, education and conservation c...

Around this time of year, Grade 9s across South Africa are making a tough choice… which subjects to take to Matric? And the bigger question: how will these subjects shape my future? Well, the answers ...

Recently, an outbreak of rabies has put the Cape fur seal populations and public safety in jeopardy. Thankfully, several incredible organisations are working to mitigate the effects of the outbreak.