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You might have heard of tagging lions and elephants, or even microchipping your pet, but did you know that scientists can also attach tags to turtles and other marine animals to keep track of them?

Turbo is one of our recently-released released rehabilitated sea turtles. Turbo was released as part of a cohort off of the Cape Peninsula on 12 December 2022. Turbo is a sub-adult green sea turtle, f...

The sea turtle rehabilitation team of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation released 69 rehabilitated turtles approximately 45 nautical miles south of Hout Bay or 12 December 2022. The turtles were all r...

Pan and Donny are sea turtles that were recently released off different parts of the South African coastline, after successful rehabilitation under the care of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation. Each...

The goal of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's turtle team is to rescue, rehabilitate and release all our rescued sea turtle patients once they are fully recovered - even for seemingly permanent res...

Rescued green turtle Bob has been in rehabilitation for eight years - but that might be about to change!

Everyone who has visited the Two Oceans Aquarium knows Bob, an endangered green sea turtle resident in our I&J Ocean Exhibit. Bob has been such a long-term feature of the Aquarium, that we sometim...

Late winter and early spring in South Africa sees what our turtle rehabilitation team refer to as “sub/adult turtle stranding season”, a period of time when our coast experiences more strandings of ad...

Pan, Donny and Caddy are three sea turtles that were recently released off different parts of the South African coastline, after successful rehabilitation under the care of the Two Oceans Aquarium Fou...

2022 has been a busy year for hatchling strandings - and we've been incredibly grateful for the network of companies and private people that have helped by adopting these hatchlings. But, we must make...

Behind the Aquarium's closed doors, the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation is hard at work developing a growing research programme, both through primary science and by supporting the academic work of loca...

Teamwork makes the dream work (cheesy, but true)! The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, uShaka Sea World and Bayworld (with assistance from East London Aquarium) teamed up for the release of three rehab...