Repost for 2/20/23 from Hout Bay Seal Rescue Centre It’s been a busy and windy week at the centre but thanks to our incredible staff all yearlings and pups in rehabilitation are doing well and are continually getting healthier and stronger 🙌🏼🤍🦭 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ #seals #rehabilitaioncentre #animalrescue #capefurseals #capetown #houtbay #fortheloveofseals Source: Hout Bay Seal Rescue Centre on Facebook 🦭🤝🦔 Source Link: https://m.facebook.com/HoutBaySealRescue/?mibextid=LQQJ4d Bonus PNG’s: https://twitter.com/saveseals/status/1627512895516057601?s=46&t=Z99aeP-avNou4u9kgyojaw https://www.instagram.com/p/Co3qEfnr8T8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
“A Cape fur seal pup scales a boulder and vocalizes to its mother at a small colony in South Africa’s Namaqua National Park. Unpublished photograph from my 2015 @NatGeo magazine story ‘Cross Currents’ about marine/coastal protected areas in Southern Africa.”
quote and pic from https://www.instagram.com/thomaspeschak/
#Repost from our Totally Awesome Conservationist friend... @thesharkwarrior @download.ins --- It’s normally a beautiful walk to the wreck on Noordhoek Beach but on Saturday it was different. Thousands of seals are dying on our West coast - they appear to have suffered from malnutrition. Only last week I researched and wrote a post about why this was happening. I did not, however, expect to find so many of them lying scattered along Noordhoek beach, far south from where most are reported. Adults as well as pups, every few metres another one - a few were marked as part of the counting efforts but most were not. I stopped taking photos eventually as there were just too many. In times gone by to see one dead seal on a beach was an occasional sight, and while this is nothing like the piles of dead seals further north, it tells the same story. There’s something seriously going wrong in our oceans, and while scientist are still trying to pin point the cause, looking at the possibility of avian flu, the only thing they have been able to confirm is the malnutrition and convulsions witnessed in some. There’s no denying or escaping the facts that have long since been documented, researched and quantified: overfishing on the West Coast as well as climate change effects on the Benguela is killing our marine life. See my previous post for more on this. The next day I took a hike up to Noordhoek peak which is a stunning vantage point overlooking the long beach walk I did the previous day. And while from up here everything looks beautiful, another story of pain and suffering lies on our beaches and in our oceans. . A @thesharkwarrior photos of a #capefurseal #endemicspecies #climatechangeeffects #overfishing #stravingtodeath #evironmentalcrises #oceansdying #saveourseas #sixthmassextinctionevent #redcodewarning #ecosystemscollapse #decadeonecosystemrestoration #stopfossilfuels #stopoceanpollution #stophabitatdestruction #stopclimatechange #padiambassadiver @wdhof @the_explorers_club @paditv @afrioceans (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVyLzd3vHzK/?utm_medium=tumblr
The large, sun gold statue honouring Oscar the Cape Fur Seal stands proudly front and center at the entrance to Sun International's Table Bay Hotel in the V&A Waterfront #seal #oscar #capefurseal #tablebayhotel #sculpture #v&awaterfront #waterfront #capetown #southafrica (at Table Bay Hotel. V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.)
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⛱️ An experience for the whole family! 🌊 Come swim with these adorable seals 😍 #capefurseals #playfulpups #boatingtourismplett #responsibletourism #plettadventures #oceanlove #amazingguides #seasonoffun #lifetimeexperience #lovewhatwedo #letsdothis #thingstodoinplett #robbergpeninsula #offshoreadventures #wetakeprideinourwork #greatskippers #blueflagboats (at Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yun3apwVV/?igshid=4rukgenrf6d4
Road tripping to Cape Cross to see the seal colony bespokeafricasafaris#capecross#namibia#namibiatravel#safari#capefurseals (at Cape Cross, Erongo, Namibia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwd56CEnwWg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jancrwlhsq5k
Is that enough Cape fur seals? Apparently not enough to attract any great white sharks for the past few weeks. They've all been scared off by a rash of killer whale attacks in the area. Great whale watch today though, Bruce's whale calf (hours old!) and mother, three humpbacks with one tremendous breach, and two charming southern right whales. #whalewatching #Capefurseals #southafrica #marinemammals #gaansbaai #kleinsbaai
Cape Cross is a protected area owned by the government of Namibia under the name Cape Cross Seal Reserve. The reserve is the home of one of the largest colonies of Cape fur seals in the world. Cape Cross è un'area protetta di proprietà del governo della Namibia sotto il nome di Cape Cross Seal Reserve. La riserva è la patria di una delle più grandi colonie di otarie da pelliccia nel mondo. . . . . . #animallovers #animalpolis #animalsofinstagram #igscwildlife #animales #wildlifephoto #wildlifeaddicts #wildlifephotography #animallovers #animalpolis #animalsofinstagram #igscwildlife #animales #wildlifephoto #wildlifeaddicts #wildlifephotography #animalworld #awesomeglobe #afrika #igs_africa #afrique #ig_africa #unlimitedafrica #nikonphotography #nikontop #capecross #capefurseal #namibia #erongo #southernafrica #swakopmund (presso Cape Cross, Erongo, Namibia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp97KNyAQVU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zrs1ducrqgd0