Sobering talk from Alison Kock IMCC8 Why aren't rock #lobsters & #abalone recovering in the No Take Zones in the Table Mountain National Park? Crashing overall stocks & high illegal fishing. Effective enforcement & stakeholder support are clearly key to MPA success #IMCC7 🦞

🚨Today the African Penguin has been uplisted to Critically Endangered by the IUCN, just one short step away from extinction in the wild. It’s simple, the longer we wait the more we lose. 🐧 Uplist report: tinyurl.com/3yfaabu9 Petition: tinyurl.com/2pdf32ke

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

I hate to do my own institution like this but...

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a thread of some of my dumbest bird-related comics of late

Throwback to finding spawning anemones in Muizenberg, Cape Town. bio.link/rockpoolingwit… for more intertidal content

My latest graphic for SABC News is a sobering look at the amount of spaces available to the record number of school leavers who passed their exams in 2024 excitedly looking to get into universities around the country. #DataViz

❤️😍💞 Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, returned to her nest on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week to care for her new chick! At an age of at least 74, the queen of seabirds is estimated to have produced 50-60 eggs and as many as 30 chicks that fledged.⤵️