We have all three on our property in the Texas Hill Country. Love the image. Swallowtails are among my favorite butterflies.

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.

Artificial Nests Help African Penguins Beat the Heat Picture this: you’re an African penguin, and life is good. The year is 1900, and roughly three million of your kind dot the beaches and rocky shores of Algoa Bay, South Africa. The colony hums with…

Here's the story link: www.krushanfoundation.org/artificial-n...

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.

Congratulations from Texas!!!

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

On Draw a Bird Day, we want to give a special thank‑you to multimedia artist Pooja Gupta (www.poojaslaboratory.com) for capturing Waddlesworth, our Chief Inspiration Officer, with such power and personality.
#WaddlesworthWednesday #DrawABirdDay #NotBy2035

I love this so much!

KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

The Navy fires live ammunition beside one of Cape Town's most famous penguin beaches.

Free 5-day course on what you can do about it.

#NotBy2035 #Birds #Conservation #MarineLife

Link to course: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

South Africa has a Biodiversity Management Plan for African penguins. The science is there. The recommendations are there. The urgency is there.

What's missing is follow-through.

Trawlers still fish near colonies. Ships refuel next to nesting sites.

More info and link in the thread.

It’s World Aquatic Animal Day, which means it’s time to appreciate the ocean squad: penguins, whales, fish, plankton, and everyone else doing their part to keep the planet running.

Be kind to the ocean. She’s carrying more than we realize. 🌊💙

African penguins bounced back 71% in a single year when the ships left Algoa Bay. Now global shipping is rerouting around the Cape — and the economics point straight back at those same waters.

The ships are already coming. 🔗 www.krushanfoundation.org/the-worlds-s...

#AfricanPenguins #NotBy2035

KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

Link to course: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

#AfricanPenguins #NotBy2035 #MarineConservation #Overfishing #Seabirds #Birds #Conservation #MarineLife

A researcher near Cape Town keeps a small pile of stones on his shelf.

They came from the stomachs of African penguin chicks who died. Parents returned from ever longer trips with nothing; they fed their chicks stones.

Free 5-day course on how to help in the thread.

Meet Pebbles — tiny, chaotic, unstoppable.
Pebbles stole my fish again.
I’m furious.
And impressed.

#NotBy2035 #AfricanPenguins #WaddlesworthWednesday

KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

We're teaching a free 5-day course on the threats facing African penguins and what you can do about each one, no matter where you live.

Link to course: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

#AfricanPenguins #NotBy2035 #OceanNoise #Seabirds #Birds #Conservation #MarineLife

7,000 breeding pairs. Then just 700. Ship traffic in Algoa Bay increased 10-fold. Underwater noise doubled. Penguins couldn't hear each other or find fish. Bunkering stopped. Breeding pairs jumped 71%.

They just needed the noise to stop.

KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

Imagine your nearest grocery store moved 70km away. No car, no delivery, shelves 75% empty.

African penguin parents live this every day. Commercial fleets fish the same waters they hunt.

We made a free 5-day crash course on the five biggest threats to African penguins and how to fight them.

Waddlesworth Gets Real The Proust Questionnaire began as a Victorian parlor game that Marcel Proust, the French novelist and master of introspection, helped make famous. He believed that by answering a set of deceptively si...

Wads, our chief inspiration officer, believes he is unforgettable. Need a refresher? Check out this post where his answers slide between earnest wisdom and unapologetic snark. www.krushanfoundation.org/waddlesworth...

Wads took a break because he:

🔵 was in a heated debate about whether seagulls are “agents of chaos” or “just misunderstood.”
🔵 needed time to process some things he said during molting season,
🔵 took parental leave to help his mate raise chicks, and
🔵 had to swim "forever" to find enough fish.

KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

Free African Penguin Impact Starter Series. www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

We made a free 5-day crash course on the five biggest threats facing these birds and what you can do about each one, no matter where you live. Seven minutes a day. No guilt trips.

In five days, you'll know more about African penguins than 99% of the planet, and you'll have specific actions to take.

Polar bears get documentaries. African penguins get nine years till extinction.

That’s 2035. Your kids might still be in school, your mortgage will still be running, but African penguins will be gone from the wild.

#AfricanPenguins #NotBy2035 #MarineConservation #WildlifeProtection

The African penguin is critically endangered. But 2025 reminded us that when a community rallies around a cause, extraordinary things happen. Here’s a look back at everything we accomplished together.

PDF with active links: www.krushanfoundation.org/2025-a-year-...

#NotBy2035 #AfricanPenguins

Penguin yoga: because conservation requires core strength.

#NotBy2035 #PenguinLove #Conservation #birds

Bald eagles were once a whisper away from disappearing.
Now they’re a reminder that recovery is possible when people choose to act.

African penguins are standing at that same edge today. Let’s write the next comeback story.

#AfricanPenguins #ConservationHope #NotBy2035

World Wildlife Day reminder: saving a species is a team sport.

More care. More community. More stubborn hope. More action.

We’re all part of this story. 🐧💙

#WorldWildlifeDay #birds #Notby2035 #penguin

A little rehab‑center glow‑up: SAPREC’s penguin pool has been fully relined thanks to KruShan supporters.

Safe water, strong swimmers, better chances for release.

Thank you for making this possible. 🐧💙