Waddlesworth here. KruShan Foundation supports 1,271 miles of coastline and offshore islands where critically endangered African penguins live and breed. They know in real time which organizations have rescued penguins that need help now. #birds 🦑 #NotBy2035 #penguins

How do you adequately express your feelings when you receive the greatest honor you may ever get? Saprec, one of our partners, is naming an African penguin chick after me. A small, determined life that will one day live in the wild thanks to supporters who care. I’m deeply moved.

Sharks get all the scary‑mouth hype, but an African penguin’s mouth is a tiny horror show. Backward‑facing spines on the tongue. More on the palate. A beak to stab. Sharks slice. Penguins trap. This MPA Day, we honor the importance of marine protected areas for all marine life, cute and scary.

Fletcher and Pamela are thriving like the determined little African penguin chicks they are. Each healthy chick represents momentum in safeguarding African penguins, one of the world’s most threatened seabirds. #birds #conservation 🦑 #penguins

Will Pamela remain Pamela or be renamed Pomelo? Genetic testing is the only reliable way to determine the sex of an African penguin. Enjoy the gender reveal from Hartenbos Animal Hospital. #birds 🦑 #conservation #penguins #NotBy2035

Maybe you think it's hopeless. I've got news! This year, researchers counted 782 breeding pairs at Boulders Beach, up from 690 the year before. That’s a 13% jump for a species declared Critically Endangered just two years ago. Help us keep that momentum going. Yep, that's code for please donate.

Pamela and Fletcher took two wildly different paths into the world this month: one hatched under devoted penguin parents, one with skilled human help. Both chicks are thriving. Proof that conservation works when everyone shows up. #birds 🦑 #conservation #penguins #NotBy2035

Sharks get a whole week, but today our hearts belong to long-term loves Disci, Domi, and their two new chicks. Ocean joy comes in many shapes—and sometimes those shapes are round and squeaky. Stay with us all week for the vids, gender reveal, and cuteness overload.

The number of critically endangered African penguins at the Boulders colony increased according to the 2026 census! The increase comes at a critical time when fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs remaining in the wild globally. We're doing the happy dance. Image: SANParks

The recent winter storm caused severe damage to our colonies. We lost nests. We lost habitat. And heartbreakingly, we lost some of our own. We urgently need support for: habitat restoration, emergency care, and food + medical supplies. Donate here: www.krushanfoundation.org/donations/

✨ This World Environment Day, choose hope with a backbone. In just five days, you can understand the real threats critically endangered African penguins face and learn how you can protect them from anywhere. 👉 Enroll for free: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe... #WorldEnvironmentDay

Every critically endangered African penguin has a story. Proud of you, buddy. Keep flapping that half‑functional flipper like it’s a victory flag. #NotBy2035 #WaddlesworthWednesday #penguinlove

I’m not saying the fate of my species rests on your shoulders, but I’m also not not saying that. Help keep critically endangered African penguins from becoming the world’s saddest plot twist. Discover what’s possible: www.krushanfoundation.org #NotBy2035 #penguinlove #WaddlesworthWednesday

Have you ever wondered what happens during African penguin rehab? Oil removal. bloodwork. X-rays, stitches, medicine, and lots of fish. Every bird released back to the ocean carries the work of dozens of people and years of conservation science. Read: www.krushanfoundation.org/from-crisis-...

Remembering screening Sir David Attenborough's Ocean last December. Happy 100th birthday, sir!

John Oliver. I extend my deepest, most flipper‑forward gratitude for your recent public service announcement correcting the outrageous AI‑generated claim that penguins… urinate. We do not. We have never. We are birds, not tiny tuxedoed garden hoses. #NotBy2035 #penguinlove

We funded surveillance cameras on Dyer Island, South Africa, to help protect one of the last African Penguin breeding colonies. Solar powered. Running 24/7. Already deterring poachers. The team sent us a full report. We wrote it up. Worth a read. www.krushanfoundation.org/watching-ove...

South Africa's Constitution mandates the protection of wildlife. Why is the government not protecting the critically endangered African penguins? 🐧 #NotBy2035 #penguinlove #GovernmentFailure #Africanpenguin #Savethepenguins #NOOW #southafricanbirds #endangeredspecies #birds 🦑🦉#conservation

When the tallest, cold‑hardiest penguins on Earth are struggling to survive, it’s not a niche problem; it’s a climate alarm with feathers. This is not just about penguins. This is about oceans, climate, food webs, and the future of every creature that depends on our planet not overheating.

Species have come back from the edge before because people stepped in when it mattered. African penguins need a comeback story. Their numbers are falling, but their future is still winnable. Be the hero of their story. Donate today. www.krushanfoundation.org/donations/ #penguinlove #NotBy2035

94% gone in one generation. African penguins are now Critically Endangered. Fewer than 10k breeding pairs remain. They could vanish in the wild by 2035. That’s what #NotBy2035 is about. Enjoy our gift--a free 5-day email course. Start here: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

Earth Day reminder: the planet is doing its best, considering everything we’ve thrown at it. The least we can do is return the favor. 🌍 Choose hope. Choose action. Choose to protect the penguins who show up every day in formalwear. Waddle responsibly.

I’ve begun practicing ‘radical optimism,’ which mostly involves power‑posing on rocks and shouting affirmations like I AM A SMALL BUT MIGHTY BIRD at passing gulls. Hope is real, the ocean is dramatic, and you’re now emotionally responsible for at least one penguin. Waddle accordingly.

Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs. Down 8% every year. Scientists predict extinction in the wild by 2035. Nine years from now. We co-founded the KruShan Foundation, the only U.S. nonprofit working solely on African penguin protection. 97% of every dollar goes directly to the birds. Link in thread.

A young African penguin arrived at a Mossel Bay rehab center in September 2024. Hungry, underweight, sunburnt, stuck mid-molt. They named him Rocky. Weeks of careful feeding later, he made it. More info and course link in the thread.

When I can’t find fish, that’s the ocean’s version of sending you 47 push notifications like: “Your ecosystem is on fire 🔥 pls respond.” And some of you are out here going, "Oh no, the penguin is stressed... anyway, who wants sushi?” Help me. Stop with the fossil fuels. Protect yourselves. 🦑 🪶

Young African penguins follow their instincts to where the fish should be. Cool water. Plankton signals. Looks perfect. But warming seas pushed the sardines hundreds of kilometers east. The birds never got the memo.

African penguin homelessness is real. These birds once had safe, cool, protective burrows made from deep guano built over generations. Humans took that guano away. For profit. Some very clever people created artificial nests to give penguins back what was taken: a home, a future, a fighting chance.

45,000 volunteers. Toothbrushes and degreaser. Twelve weeks of washing oil off 19,000 penguins after a single shipwreck. 90% survived. The number saved during that 2000 rescue? Greater than the entire wild population today. Free 5-day course. www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

The original icon. The reason we exist. The moment everything changed. #WaddlesworthWednesday #NotBy2035 #OurWhy #AfricanPenguin