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…
Category Archives: AfriOceans
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Oct
Oct
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
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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Aug
Aug
In March 2004 an article I wrote was published in the award winning environmental and conservation magazine, Africa Geographic, about the Maxine, Science, Education and Awareness programme (M-SEA), an AOCA initiative, in collaboration with the Two Oceans Aquarium. Soon thereafter Maxine was satellite tagged and released. Now five years later another article I’ve written has…
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Jul
Jul
Good relationships have a history of events, moments, and experiences, which have developed and accumulated over time, and mine with Shark Lady, Kim Maclean, a strong, determined, passionate and compassionate woman, is one of those.
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Jun
Jun
It was Environmental Week last week and what a wonderful success we had at the SOSSC – we reached about 2800 learners, and a couple of hundred adults! As director of education and awareness of the SOS Shark Centre, an AfriOceans project, I promote collaboration amongst other organisations and groups to increase our success in…
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Apr
Apr
What a joy it is to have over 100 children as a captive audience, learning about sharks and the oceans! It was a wild day at the Centre with so many children which we broke up into three groups; one group was with me having a lesson on sharks, the other across the road from the Centre having a rock pool lesson…
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Mar
Mar
Today I was interviewed by a film crew from Brazil who are assisting Sea Shepherd, Brazil with a campaign film they are making to raise awareness about the need to conserve the sharks of Brazil. According to Ana Paula and her husband Tony, there are practically no sharks left and people continue to see them as…
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Oct
Oct
Wonderful news! The Rethink the Shark Campaign created originally for AFRIOCEANS and which I used for the M-Sea Programme, the shark conservation programme I designed and initiated in 2004 through AOCA, has won a prestigious PANDA award at the Wildscreen Film Festival! This is equavalent to an Oscar so we are very proud – it…