Hard to believe another year has gone by and I find myself amongst about 3000 people again on Clifton 4th Beach for the opening of the Wavescape Film Festival, which SOSF are sponsoring for a second time. I was horse riding in Noordhoek so I missed the sunset, and the chance to collect my tripod,…
Author Archives: Lesley Rochat
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Dec
AfriOceans Warriors – the Voice of our Oceans! On Wednesday, 2 December 2009, 430 learnersfrom 14 high schools and junior schools from the South Peninsula in Cape Town, South Africa, including 30 learners from COSAT in Khayelitsha, called the young AfriOceans Warriors, walked 8km in howling South Easter winds along a stretch of the coast…
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In the bosom of the Ocean, in the heart of Nature, the pulse of planet Earth, that which is the life support system of all that exists as we know it, wrapped in precious water, here I find God, Peace, Love, Joy, Wisdom and Truth.
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In 2004 I ran a shark protest, yes, you heard right, sharks protesting for their rights! With the support of Saatchi and a number of volunteers, who pretended to be sharks holding protest boards out of the water, and during the Simon’s Town Festival, at which AfriOceans had a stall, we succeeded in raising awareness…
AfriOceans, Awards, Conservation, Shark Finning, Sharks in Deep Trouble
Sharks in Deep Trouble Wins More Awards!
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Nov
Nov
I am proud to announce that my film, Sharks in Deep Trouble, has won yet another award, making it the sixth to date. It won Best Information Film Award, Film Category A, at the 36th World Festival of Underwater Pictures held in Marseille, France in November.I never had any idea when making the film that…
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Oct
Oct
It is Saturday and not an ordinary Saturday but globally a very significant one. Thousands of people from all over the world are participating in what will go down in history as one of the most significant awareness events to date, a call for action to reduce the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere down to…
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After a few creative brainstorming sessions Rethink the Predator was born. Like the rethink the shark campaign, this campaign has a number of different elements and this is just one of them.
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Oct
In my capacity as a freelance environmental journalist I attended the press conference for the Blue Carbon Report on Healthy Oceans at the Diversitas Conference held in Cape Town this week. The Blue Carbon report, compiled in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FOA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),…
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Oct
Oct
The headline of the paper read, “Organized chaos as Muizenburg attempts to get most surfers riding the same wave.” For me on my board behind the backline chaos was the operative word. Michael Carnegie, one of the SOS Shark Centre educators, and I were amongst about 400 surfers trying to line up to catch the…
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It was another busy week for me and the rest of the Centre team: In partnership with Ocean Conservancy South Africa, and sponsored by the City of Cape Town, the Shark Centre, an AOCA project, based in Kalk Bay, South Africa, supported National Coastal Cleanup week which is linked to International Coastal Cleanup day. About…