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Do you know a school that could benefit from a visit from the travelling Smart Living classroom? The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation's mobile classrooms are back on the road and ready to visit a school near you with free, educational and inspirational lessons!Outreach teacher Anzio is bringing lessons about sustainable living to schools in under-resourced communities around Cape Town - and he'd love to reach even more kids with this opportunity. Teacher Anzio has been doing this for a long time and he's learned one lesson that he wants to pass on to everyone - if you love nature and want to benefit from it, you need to learn how to live a sustainable life at home.

Meet the devil firefish, also known as the lionfish. Its scientific binomial name Pterois miles translates to "feathered soldier", which we think is a perfect name for a fish, which is easily recognisable for its venomous, spiny fins.

We've just welcomed a newcomer to the I&J Ocean Exhibit - Harry the green turtle! While his public debut might be new and exciting, Harry actually arrived at the Two Oceans Aquarium in October last year, and has been undergoing intense rehabilitation with the animal health team of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation. Harry is now out of the woods, but he still needs plenty of time to rest and regain his strength before being released, and the I&J Ocean Exhibit is providing a big, safe space for him to do this!

Relax, rejuvenate and realign with yoga classes in the most serene setting of all: the Two Oceans Aquarium. Strike a pose and join us on a unique yoga journey with instructor Magenta, happening on Monday afternoons, for R220 per session via Quicket (members get 25% off - details below).

Seals are a group of semiaquatic mammals that are scientifically known as "pinnipeds". Resembling, slick, flippered dogs, seals are all carnivores and spend their time at sea hunting, and their time on land caring for their young, resting, healing and moulting. Their fin-like feet that enable them to swim gracefully underwater (but does not make them as gracefully on land) set them apart from other mammals. Like many coastal countries, South Africa is hole to resident seals and visitors from afar - so let's take a look at the seals you might encounter here!

Cape Town is currently the reigning champion of the City Nature Challenge, an international competition where everyday citizens try to take as many photos as possible of different species and upload them to the citizen science app iNaturalist. Our incredible biodiversity and team of volunteers enabled Cape Town to take the top spot in the "Most Species" and "Most Observations" categories when the competition was last run in 2019 - now we all need to help defend our title!

Remember all those cormorant chicks that were rescued on Robben Island a few months ago? Over the past few months, the Two Oceans Aquarium has assisted SANCCOB with the return and release of rehabilitated cormorant chicks on Robben Island. These birds are part of the large-scale rescue that has been ongoing since mid-January 2021.

It's not just animals and plants that depend on healthy ecosystems - they are vital for humans too. Conservation alone is no longer enough to preserve our natural heritage, that's why for Earth Day 2021 we are talking about "Restoring Our Earth", working towards ecosystem recovery for the good of all. Ecosystems improve our quality of life as humans, enabling us to grow and harvest food in a sustainable way, providing sinks for greenhouses gases that we inevitably produce, and provide us with pleasure and a connection to the natural world - this allows you to have a better quality of life, and will allow the next generation to enjoy one too.

Join Wildlife Management Programme Coordinator Bretty Glasby for an exciting online Q&A about the wild seals that live in the V&A Waterfront. Be sure to join Brett online and find out more about the work his team with the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation does with Cape fur seals, and other animals, in the V&A Waterfront by joining us online 28 April, at 18h00.

Ever since Finding Nemo came out back in 2003, everyone has become a clownfish expert - you can easily recognise their orange and white colours in our Skretting Diversity Gallery, and you probably already know that they are covered in a layer of slime that allows them to live inside sea anemones without being stung. But, that's just the beginning - there's a lot more to these little fish that you may not have realised.

The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation is all about ocean literacy - and there's no better way to achieve a lifetime of learning than by joining their "Crew". For just R100 per month, you will receive access to educational resources from Q&As with animal experts, to ocean-themed puppet shows for kids - more on all that below - plus, you get the bragging rights of knowing that you're supporting the Foundation's educational outreach and animal rehabilitation efforts at the Aquarium!