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…
Category Archives: Shark Nets
AfriOceans Warriors, Campaigns, Conservation, Diving with Sharks, Great White Shark, Lesley Rochat, Rethink the Shark, Shark Nets
Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!
11
Jan
Jan
[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…
AfriOceans, Campaigns, Lesley Rochat, Shark Nets
Proposed removal of Shark Nets from Aliwal Shoal in South Africa
09
Feb
Feb
I am writing this blog to give clarity to a misleading post on the Shark Angels website which claimed that the nets would be removed from the Aliwal Shoal, Park Rynie and Scottburgh. There are still many conflicting statements going around so for what it’s worth I herewith share what I have: Early the next…
AfriOceans Warriors, Deep Free Dive For Sharks, Diving with Sharks, Lesley Rochat, Shark Nets, shark photography, Sharks
Goodbye 2012! Hello 2013!
05
Jan
Jan
[doptg id=”15″] It’s time to get stuck in to 2013 and loads of conservation work, but before doing so I would like to reflect back on 2012: what did we achieve (the organisation I founded, AfriOceans Conservation Alliance, and my team and me), how can we improve, how can we have better impact? These are…
09
May
May
Soon after the loss of five tiger sharks and one white shark in the shark nets in the marine protected area (MPA) of the Aliwal Shoal, Cormac McCreesh told me he was organizing a ‘paddle out’ in honor of all the sharks and other marine life killed in the nets, similar to the paddle out…
03
May
May
For too long the shark nets of KwaZulu Natal have been killing our sharks and other innocent marine life. They are no more than indiscriminate walls of death. The Kwa-Zulu Natal Sharks Board themselves, no more than a fishing company who catch and kill marine life with archaic gill nets (and drumlines), which are banned…