Eco-photos of the week: April 26-May 2
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Helping hand
South African volunteer Lenox Mbathe hand feeds an oiled African penguin as part of a rehabilitation process at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coast birds in Cape Town. A total of 129 oiled African penguins were rescued from the islands along the southern Namibian coastline following an unidentified oil spill, and were transported to SANCCOB in the world's first cross-border penguin rescue. The penguins will undergo a rehabilitation program before being released back into the ocean. There are only 27,000 breeding pairs of African penguins remaining, down from 4 million at the turn of the century.
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