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Our Living Community - 12 March 2025

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In this episode we start our focus on Sanccob - the organization looking after sea birds, and more specifically the African Penguin. Chris Doran, who is a volunteer for Sanccob in Table View, took Otto van der Walt for a tour of the facilities and told about Althea Westphal who started the organization. Chris also gave some stark population numbers of the African Penguin.
11 Mar English South Africa Science · Nature

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