Pioneer African Penguins set to establish colony within De Hoop Nature Reserve

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The De Hoop Nature Reserve will serve as the new permanent home for 30 fledgling African Penguins were released on the reserve’s rocky shores on Tuesday morning.

The endeavour was undertaken by the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds in partnership with CapeNature and BirdLife South Africa hopes to re-establish a penguin colony and help save the endangered African Penguin.
The African Penguin is endemic to the shores of Southern Africa, from Hollams Bird Island, near the central Namibian coast, to Algoa Bay off the coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

They are normally be found in large, noisy colonies. The African Penguin is also commonly referred to as the Jackass Penguin because of its loud, braying call that sounds similar to that of a donkey.