Help rescue Penguins with SANCCOB

Posted by Adrian Brown on 20 December 2018

Experience a unique internship with the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) and participate in the six-month chick rearing program working hands-on with seabirds of South Africa.

Established in 1968, SANCCOB has saved and treated more than 90,000 oiled, ill, injured or abandoned endangered African Penguins among other threatened seabirds.

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The internship equips individuals with ‘chic-husbandry’ and egg management skills that are beneficial for working in captive breeding or seabird chick rearing. SANCCOB’s programme prepares interns for a career in bird care and conservation, which will ensure growth in populations of the threatened and endangered species. Interns will work with adorable young penguins and seabirds from the moment they hatch to their ever-awaited release back into the natural marine environment.

Potential interns are reminded that they must posses the following qualities: be focused, self motivated, compassionate and highly observant for the position.

What SANCCOB expects from their interns:

– Committed and willing to go the extra mile

– Able to work in a team and independently

– Willing to work in different weather conditions, rain or sunshine

– Reliable and accountable

– Good problem-solving skills

– Work well under pressure

– Excellent communication skills

– Attention to detail

– Trustworthy

– Ability to multitask, prioritise and perform tasks by order of importance and delegate tasks to volunteers and other interns

More details about the internship can be found here.

Prospective interns will acquire a wide range of skills during their working period at SANCCOB, from basic training of other interns to handling, feeding and monitoring African penguin chicks of all ages and more.

Available dates for the internship are:

  • April 2019 – September 2019 (one intern required)
  • June 2019 – November 2019 (one intern required)
  • September 2019 – February 2020 (two interns required)
  • October 2019 – March 2020 (one intern required)
  • December 2019 – May 2020 (one intern required)

Applications for the internship can be downloaded here.

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Have you ever considered volunteering? It is very rewarding. On this photo, I am getting my reward by a penguin who is pulling my hair after I spent all day cleaning and feeding them 😂🐧 For the last 6 years, I have been taking time out to live abroad and to be part of something that truly matters. It makes me sad realising that I am just a consumer, that the only impact I have on our planet is negative, that I am still part of destroying and harming our nature. Life in the city makes people believe that money is the most important thing, that success should be measured by it and that you can buy happiness. Volunteering truly taught me the opposite, that is why I think that every person should take time off to work for free, to dedicate time and energy towards a bigger cause, to do something meaningful not for the sake of the reward. Every day, when I am slowly dying from exhaustion in the evening I ask myself: “Why on Earth, do I do this to myself?” But then the answer comes quickly. I volunteer because the optimist inside me seeks a glimmer of hope. I understand that I am helping and that my time is worth it. I believe that I am capable of inciting change and making progress, in some way, large or small, I am capable of doing good. I am volunteering because I do not want to be just a consumer. Saving penguins or reading books to the elderly, find something that evokes an emotional response within you. Awaken your passions and your heart by volunteering for something that is meaningful to you. Together we can make our world a better place ❤ #volunteer #volunteering #penguins #southafrica #capetown #animallovers

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