Mark D Anderson and Natalie Maskell

Mark D Anderson is CEO of BirdLife South Africa, an internationally renowned organisation which focuses its work on conserving threatened bird species and important bird habitats. BirdLife SA has three staff members who are dedicated African penguin scientists and conservationists. Natalie Maskell is CEO of the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob), a non-profit organisation that carries out and leads vital conservation initiatives to reverse the decline of southern African seabird populations in the wild, with special focus on endangered species like the African penguin.