In a unique first for Cape Town, South Africa, Save our Seas Shark Centre and Consider Us, a UNEP Initiative joined hands with 600 Rainbow Kids to send a resounding message to the world on Camps Bay beach, Cape Town on the Global Day of Climate Action, Saturday 24 October 2009.
First creating a Consider Us logo, this transformed into a 350 logo within seconds. (more…)
Comments (1)From Charles Cover and the rest of the End of the Line team comes another way to exercise your purchasing power as a consumer to support sustainable fisheries with their new website fish2fork.com. On the site you can search restaurants by name and location and view their good or bad fish rating: blue fish (up to 5) represent marks for sustainably sourced fish, whereas red fish (again up to 5) indicate the establishment’s menu may include endangered fish species. The site has got the ball rolling with a list of 100 restaurants and is now trying to get the public involved by providing their own reviews of restaurants they have visited, either opting to ‘pat a chef on the back’ or ‘rat on a restaurant’.
Alarmingly 7 out of 25 Michelin-starred restaurants visited were serving species listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List. However, the campaign appears to already be having an effect, with landmark London restaurants J Sheekey and Scott’s having moved from negative red fish ratings into the blue fish zone. Nonetheless, these red/blue fish ratings aren’t as clear cut as black and white: the caviar from one of these restaurants is now classed as sustainable due to being from farmed sturgeon as opposed to wild sturgeon. Although the target fishery may be demographically sustainable when farmed, fish farms themselves remain controversial due to the disproportionately large amount of wild fish caught to supply them.
Have your say on the fish being served in your local restaurants over at: www.fish2fork.com. Together we can make a difference when eating out by choosing to dine on sustainably sourced fish.
Also, for those readers based in the UK, be sure to catch The End of the Line online if you haven’t already.
Comments (0)Save Our Seas Shark Centre and Jungle Theatre took the “Shark Dreams” play to 1000 Primary School children in Cape Town. We traveled to Turfhall Primary in Hanover Park and Klipfontein Primary in Bonteheuwel this past week.
The play based on the book Sue finds Happy Eddie, was written by Lesley Rochat and tells the story of Thandi, a young Capetonian who dreamed of becoming a surfer and riding the waves at Muizenberg, on the False Bay coast. In her dreams, she meets up with the sea spirit who takes her on a journey to meet the different sharks in the sea. She searches for a shy shark, Happy Eddy, who has gone missing from the Save our Seas Shark Centre. The play also highlights the threats to sharks, how to be ‘Shark Wise’ and the role of the Shark Spotters in ensuring safety when swimming at our beaches.
We thank our generous benefactor for enabling us to reach these children.
Comments (0)Save our Seas Shark Centre staff training pays dividends Terry and Zanele underwent two days of First Aid training with EMT (Emergency Rescue Training); and little did they know how soon their training would be put into practice.
As a public venue we are often the first call – be it a seal rescue, a whale beaching or in this case a gent that had dislocated his shoulder. We responded to all of the above; Monday – a seal rescue, Tuesday – alerted to the Orca that had beached on Sunset Beach, Milnerton and then the real first aid call on Thursday. What a week!
Rest assured, we take our roles very seriously and will continue to do so.
Comments (0)Camps Bay Beach, Cape Town, Saturday 24 October 2009.
As the helicopters filming the 350 action on Camps Bay beach buzzed overhead today, the excitement was fever pitch with teenagers running everywhere. What looked like organized chaos was actually a well orchestrated attempt to move everyone into position to form the symbolic 350 logo and capture it on film from the air.
Making their statement to the world, over 600 multi-cultured South African teenagers registered throughout the day at the Save our Seas tent to be part of the most important global environmental event the world has ever seen. Some placards read: ‘Zuma be a 350 boy’! (more…)
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SOSF chief photographer, Thomas Peschak takes us behind the scenes in the Maldives photographing manta rays. 
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