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Nurdle spill appears around the Cape Peninsula

Seal Snorkeling, Cape Town, South Africa, Hout Bay
Ever heard of a nurdle? Nurdles - the raw material used in plastic production Local residents and organisations in Cape Town have been collecting these teeny plastic pellets over the last few days, as hundreds of thousands of them have been washing up on our shores. These resin pellets are the raw material used in plastic production, and… Read More

My Octopus Teacher

Seal Snorkeling, Cape Town, South Africa, Hout Bay
All of us at Animal Ocean want to take a moment to celebrate and highlight an incredible film – “My Octopus Teacher”, created in Cape Town’s kelp forests by a seriously dedicated and talented group of ocean humans. We hope that this little blog post adds to the worldwide wave of exposure to this one-of-a-kind undersea story. Well done to… Read More