A colourful festival of music and dance also taking place in December was the highly successful Jungle Theatre ‘Pickup Litter’ campaign on Muizenberg beach, in partnership with SOSSC and Ocean Minded.
Using large props of a shark, whale and octopus, all made from recycled plastic picked up on the beaches, the Jungle Theatre crew, accompanied by eager participants dancing to the beat of the djembe drummers moved down the beach encouraging everybody to pick up the litter. (more…)
Comments (0)The communities of the South Peninsula joined together in early December, thanks to funding from the National Lotteries Board, to celebrate their diversity in celebrating land and ocean creatures.
Save our Seas Shark Centre took part in this unique festival in partnership with the KELP project. Using the kelp 2010 Vuvuzelas, Terry and Michael, both from the SOSSC Education department held an impromptu ‘Vuvuzela blowing competition’ which attracted throngs of youngsters to the SOS stall. (more…)
Comments (0)The Save Our Seas Shark Centre has run two very successful SeaSmartKidz Holiday educational programmes from Monday 14 to Friday 18 December 2009 and Monday 4 to Friday 8 January 2009.
These SeaSmartKidz programmes build on environmental knowledge by introducing young children to sharks and the marine environment in fun and innovative ways, including intertidal studies, shark lessons, arts and crafts and learning to dive. (more…)
Comments (1)The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) White Shark Research Team together with the Shark Spotters tracked a 3-metre great white shark for 24 hours straight. This was the first successful overnight continuous track of a white shark in False Bay.
Studying white sharks along the False Bay coast. Hours of surveying is required to spot the sharks swimming inshore.
Following reports from the Shark Spotters of shark sightings close to shore within the last two weeks in False Bay, the Save Our Seas Foundation white shark research team headed out to survey the coast for sharks and attempt to tag one of them. They found a white shark at 12h42 on Tuesday 8th December swimming along the surface between Seal Island and Strandfontein. After monitoring the shark’s behaviour for a few minutes the research boat slowly approached the shark to get a photographic identification of its dorsal fin, assign a catalogue number and determine the shark’s size and sex. After closer inspection it was determined that the shark was a 3-meter female, subsequently named Deepblue.
Comments (6)The future of our Oceans, the life force of our planet, is under serious threat. A new era in conservation has started. A significant shift from awareness to action has begun. Time is not on our side, but the will to make a difference is.
On Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 430 learners from 14 high schools and junior schools from the South Peninsula, including 30 learners from COSAT in Khayelitsha, walked 8km in howling South Easter winds along a stretch of the coast from Muizenberg to Glencairn.
This AOCA initiative brought together the support of a number of governmental and non governmental organizations including SOS Shark Centre, SANCCOB, Dolphin Action Protection Group, Centre for Conservation Education, Kelp Environmental Learning Project, Seal Alert SA, Table Mountain National Park, City of Cape Town (YES programme), Jungle Theatre, Baboon Matters, Metrorail, NSRI, Western Cape Education Department, Science Education Resources Initiative, SA Navy, KEAG, Whale of a Heritage Route, REEF, Bright Weights, Pisces Divers, and Shark Lady Adventures.
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SOSF chief photographer, Thomas Peschak takes us behind the scenes in the Maldives photographing manta rays. 
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