Tenikwa Wildlife Awareness Centre encourages members of our local communities to come through the centre and learn about South African wildlife and our environment.  One of our objectives is to run a community outreach program which educates local disadvantaged communities and our farming communities about the importance of preserving wildlife in the area.  We do this through talks and presentations to various groups, invitation to groups to visit Tenikwa, publishing articles and information in newspapers and media, printed material available at the centre, provoking a thought process during the tour and having information available on the web which people can assimilate in a non-threatening way.

When we started our Rehabilitation Centre, we realized that through rehabilitation, we can make a difference to the lives of individual animals, and certainly in the penguin case, a difference to the species, but through education and awareness, we really have the ability to impact on a much greater scale, and we have focused much of our efforts in the last two years on this area.

Although we do presentations at schools and clubs, we really like to take people into the natural habitat of the animal, to make the connection between the survival of the animal and the preservation of natural habitat, and therefore it is important to bring the people to Tenikwa as it has far greater impact than doing a talk in a school room, for example.

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