Category Archives: Rethink the Shark

GET HOOKED ON CONSERVATION, BAN DRUMLINES!

WATCH VIDEO BELOW! Wow, what a way to celebrate Earth Day and launch our new shark awareness campaign! I’ve done some pretty extreme things for shark conservation but our latest campaign, in partnership with Walter Bernardis of African Watersports who was the creative director of the campaign, the GET HOOKED ON CONSERVATION, BAN DRUMLINES, campaign…

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!

[doptg id=”24″] WATCH 3MINUTE SLIDE SHOW FOR VISUAL SUMMARY OF OUR HIGHLIGHTS IN 2013! Wonder what AfriOceans and I got up to during 2013, where your donations and support went to, why I didn’t answer all my emails? Well, phew is all I can say! 2013, what a year! We are in full swing with…

Rethink the Fish Hoek ‘Shark Attack’

Lesley Rochat Photography Fish Hoek Shark Attack

Let me begin by saying I am truly sorry that a shark harmed a man recently in my home village, Fish Hoek. I feel for the man, his family, and for the sharks. After reading the facts of the incident I am left with one big question: If someone warned you repeatedly that there was…

Talking RETHINK THE SHARK at TEDx

Lesley Rochat TEDx Talks

I’m in one of those phases that is all too familiar: too much to do, too little time! We have been setting up our new public office and getting the wheels turning for our exciting AfriOceans Warriors Environmental Education Programme, funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund of South Africa. We are hectic with…

Wonderful White Sharks

Lesley Rochat Photography - Great White Shark

A stunning weekend was had by the famous shark scientist, Dr Leonard Compagno, and I when we visited Kleinbaai this past weekend as guests of Wilfred Chivell of Marine Dynamics, an outstanding white shark cage diving business run off a superb vessel, Slashfin. I’ve been threatening to take up Wilfred’s offer for some time and…

Talking Sharks & Surfing

Lesley Rochat Photography - Sharks

Tears poured down her face as she caught my eye as if to say: “This is so, so sad and incredibly cruel and it pains me to watch it.” She was a young, attractive Asian-looking woman, sitting one row back from the front, watching my film ‘Sharks in Deep Trouble’ which I presented at the…

For the genuine love of sharks

Lesley Rochat Swimming with Sharks

When I became a shark conservationist over a decade ago sharks were not in vogue as self-promoting marketing tools, nor considered to be in any real danger of extinction and therefore not worth conserving. As a freelance environmental journalist I knew differently. Not happy with my career at the time, I was on a spiritual…

Keep the oceans clean. Another compelling PSA from AfriOceans !

Keep the oceans clean
[youtube url=”http://youtu.be/hxOKQv4Kksc” autohide=”0″] I have learnt that when you do good, good follows. It is a law of the Universe. So it was with Kelsey Egan, a lovely young, motivated and talented film producer and director who, having been inspired by the work we are doing at AfriOceans, approached me about a public service announcement…

Rethinking the shark at UK Dive Show

Lesley Rochat Photography - Sardine run

Oh boy, but has it been a hectic while and a half! It began weeks ago and got worse before it got better when I arrived at the airport to leave for London to attend the Ocean Geographic ‘An Unforgettable Evening’ with Michael Aw, Leandro Blanc and David Doubilet at the London Zoo; to squeeze…