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Wednesday, 22 December 2010

'The Penguins of Boulders' by Dirk Schmidt — a Book Review

The Penguins of BouldersThe Penguins of Boulders is a book all about the African pen­guin.  Despite being one of the most cha­ris­matic anim­als on our planet, it is a spe­cies in peril suf­fer­ing from rapid envir­on­mental degrad­a­tion through oil and chem­ical spillages and the deple­tion of inshore fish stocks as its primary food source.

About the Book

The African pen­guin is an indic­ator spe­cies for envir­on­mental health and biod­iversity. This book not only high­lights some of the envir­on­mental pres­sures these anim­als face, but also illus­trates and describes inter­est­ing pen­guins facts, ref­er­ence inform­a­tion on the spe­cies, but also vari­ous con­ser­va­tion and ongo­ing res­cue operations.

The book is aimed at a wide audi­ence from young adults, adult read­ers, bird enthu­si­asts, and tour­ists that visit the Penguin colony of Boulders or have an interest in pen­guins. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Monday, 11 August 2008

The Penguins at Boulders Beach

There’s some­thing very pecu­liar about stand­ing on a sandy shoreline, bask­ing in the South African sum­mer sun while gaz­ing out across the crys­tal blue waters of the Indian Ocean, only to encounter a group of pen­guins wad­dling past your beach towel on their way to hav­ing a dip.

Well at Boulders Beach, a National Park, just out­side Simon’s Town (en-route to Cape Point), nature has been play­ing the strangest tricks on sun wor­shipers for some time.

Boulders Beach is home to the ‘Jackass’ African pen­guin, which has been hanging out along the Southern African coast for… er… donkey’s years, in more recent times liv­ing shoulder to knee-cap with the local human pop­u­la­tion of Simon’s Town.

Named “jack­ass” after their dis­tinct­ive Eeyore imper­son­a­tions, they occur in only 27 other sites, includ­ing Robben Island, and des­pite their large num­bers at Boulder’s (some 3000), they are very much endangered. Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues