Category Archives: Conservation

Teaching Children at the SOS Shark Centre

Lesley Rochat Teaching Children at the SOS Shark Centre

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…

Lesley, the Ragged Tooth Shark, is Back!

Lesley the raggedtooth shark

I am delighted that Lesley, a ragged tooth shark, named after me, who was caught on the 15 March 2006 and satellite tagged and released, was recently re-captured. She was one of many sharks tagged as part of the  M-Sea Programme, a unique shark conservation programme initiated by AfriOceans Conservation Alliance (AOCA), in collaboration with…

Brazilian Film Crew Making a Difference

Brazilian Film Crew Making a Difference

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…

SOS Foundation sponsors Wavescape 2008!

SOS Foundation sponsors Wavescape 2008

As part of my committments in directing education and awareness for the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, I assisted with the Save Our Seas Foundation sponsored Wavescape Film Festival. The events have been a fantastic success: Check this link out on Wavescape: http://www.wavescape.co.za/wavescapes-film-festival/thousands-pull-in-at-clifton.html Over 3000 people attended the Clifton event and I managed to secure…

Winning Awards!

Sharks in Deep Trouble - A Film by Lesley Rochat

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…