Animal Demography Unit

Seabirds

Rehabilitation of oiled African Penguins:

a conservation success story

The south-western coasts of South Africa are a global hotspot for oil pollution. This is not due to any unusual local negligence but is mostly a consequence of the structural failure of vessels in the challenging seas along the passage between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. One of the primary consequences of this pollution is the oiling of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus. A series of spills in the 1960s led to the establishment of SANCCOB. This booklet, published in 2003, desribes how successful SANCCOB has been rehabilitating African Penguins. Its full reference is
Nel DC & Whittington PA (eds) Rehabilitation of oiled African Penguins: a conservation success story. Cape Town: BirdLife South Africa and the Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town.
The report contains five individual chapters; pdfs are available:

Chapter 1 The conservation status and impact of oiling on the African Penguin. Deon C Nel, Robert JM Crawford, Nola J Parsons
Chapter 2 Post-release survival of rehabilitated African Penguins. Phil A Whittington
Chapter 3 Breeding productivity and annual cycle of rehabilitated African Penguins. Anton C Wolfaardt and Deon C Nel
Chapter 4 Estimating the demographic benefits of rehabilitating oiled African Penguins. Peter G Ryan
Chapter 5 Are African Penguins tough enough? A perspective on the rehabilitation of oiled birds. Les G Underhill
Preliminaries Title page, Foreword, Dedication, Acknowledgements, About the authors, Contents, Executive summary
Covers The front and back covers
Plates Four pages of colour plates