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Penguin Tutors - Heading for the Beach!
Matric exams are almost over, schools and universities are emptying and 2009 is drawing to a close! Those familiar signs of exam panic on the faces of South African students have been replaced with tans and care free smiles! There can be no mistake now…it’s finally holiday season!
Our tutors have worked exceptionally hard this year, with some incredibly rewarding results. Long term friendships have been forged and the company has grown enormously but most importantly, hundreds of learners, from Cape Town and The Winelands, to Johannesburg and Pretoria, to Durban and Pietermaritzburg, will be going into the next academic year feeling confident and enthusiastic, all because of the superior work of our tutors!
We would like to say an enormous thank you to every one of our tutors and wish them a fantastic holiday! With all the amazing choices our country has to offer for a good getaway, we can’t know what all of our tutors will be doing. But I think you can guess where most of our Pretoria and Johannesburg tutors will be going…just like these gorgeous African Penguins, they’ll be joining that wonderful summer pilgrimage to the beach!
Happy Summer Holidays!
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Penguin Tutoring is the leading provider of inspirational extra lessons in South Africa. Our specialised tutors are carefully screened and trained to provide your child with the highest quality private tuition in the comfort of your own home.
Penguin Tutoring would like to wish every single one of South Africa’s matric candidates the very best of luck as they write their final exams! We are especially holding thumbs for all of our own matrics across the country who benefitted from the knowledge and guidance of our extra lessons. Please don’t forget to let your tutor know how the exam went when it’s over and also how your results improved when you find out how you did!
Some of our best tutors are the ones who know first hand, how important good extra lessons can be, so if you’re heading off to university next year and are thinking about getting a student job, why don’t you consider becoming a Penguin Tutor yourself? Go to www.penguintutoring.co.za/tutors/apply to fill out an application!
Good Luck Class of 2009!
Matric 2009: You're Never Alone with Penguin Tutoring!
A recently released report from the 2nd International African Penguin Conservation Trust revealed that the population of African Penguins has reached a historic low, with only 26000 breeding pairs left here in Southern Africa, which is their only home.
Alarmingly, this decline has been accelerating over the last few years and fall rates have now reached 2.34% per annum.
Not enough studies have been conducted yet to tell researchers exactly why these ghastly declines are being recorded, but they suspect that a regional shortage of the penguins’ food, chiefly anchovies and sardines, is at the bottom if it.
This shortage could be the result of any number of things, the most likely culprits being overfishing, fish stocks moving with changing ocean temperatures due to global warming or a buildup of pollutants in the water over the years. Fur seals are also becoming a bit too enthusiastic in their hunting efforts, suitably cool breeding places are becoming harder to come by and of course, the constant risk of oil spills casts a dark shadow over the survival hopes of all penguins in this area.
Our friends at the Dyer Island Conservation Trust are doing everything they can to encourage breeding and stop these disappearances. One measure the’rey taking is to build and provide suitable nesting sites, which the Penguins seem to enjoy, as their breeding successes have been shown to be higher in these than in their natural nests.
But even with the success of DICT’s love nests, they still acknowledge that the real solution to the problems can only come from research. Only when they better understand the direct causes of the decline will they able to tackle the fishing industry for example, or lobby for a greater conservation area for breeding colonies. So once again, the power lies with knowledge!
You can help the Dyer Island Conservation Trust’s Faces of Need campaign by purchasing a penguin’s nest or making a donation to their all important research. Go to www.dict.org.za for more information.
Alternatively, just keep up with your extra maths and science lessons so that one day you can work directly with conservation researchers fighting for the preservation of the African Penguin and other treasures of Southern Africa’s spectacular wildlife!
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Penguin Tutoring strives to provide personalised tutoring and mentorship. We hand-pick and match a tutor to the exact needs of the family we are assisting. In a South Africa with such a diverse range of cultures, religions, and opinions, we are faced daily with such challenges. However, in our search for the enhancement of education, sometimes unorthodox measures need be put in place. So, we salute our tutors who have bridged cultural and racial divides, and found commonality in learning and education.
Even penguins team up and face adversity and challenges: Just read this warming story of penguins in Germany adopting an abandoned egg, pulblished on cbc.ca:
Keepers at Germany’s Bremerhaven zoo couldn’t get two penguin parents to take care of their egg, so they’re trying an experiment — they gave the egg to a gay male penguin couple.
In an interesting story released today:
Washington - Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their excrement from space.
In remote Antarctica, about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States, researchers have been unable to figure out just where colonies of emperor penguins live and if their population is in peril.
It is harder still because emperor penguins, featured in the film March of the Penguins, breed on sea ice, which scientists say will shrink significantly in the future because of global warming.
Because the large penguins stay on the same ice for months, their excrement stains make them stand out from space.
Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey found this out by accident when they were looking at satellite images of their bases.
