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…
Category Archives: Sharks
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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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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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Aug
Aug
Sleeping in is difficult for me in general and more so on a beautiful day. “Jeremy, Lesley here, get your butt out of bed, it’s a stunning day and the ocean beckons!” Was the sum of my call to my good friend Jeremy Jowell, well known and talented photographer and journalist. Windmill Beach it was,…
03
Aug
Aug
It’s a beautiful day in False Bay and I’m on Mike’s boat (of Pisces Divers), heading for the seven gill shark dive. I confess I live here but for various reasons I have not done the dive yet. As a shark conservationist it has got to the embarrassing stage: “What, you haven’t dived with them…
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Jul
Jul
I recently returned from my first break from the conservation demands this year. I had no internet connection for the majority of the trip so herewith my entries, which I will add to as I get a moment: I’m a guest of Michael Aw’s on one of his trips to South Africa to dive with…
Awards, Conservation, Shark Finning, Sharks, Sharks in Deep Trouble
SHARKS IN DEEP TROUBLE WINS AWARDS!
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Jun
Jun
Sharks in Deep Trouble has won another two awards at the International Celebrate the Sea Film Festival held in Philippines. It has been credited with five awards so far from three international festivals, and this time I won a liveaboard package in Indonesia, an underwater photographer’s dream, I can’t wait for that much needed break!…
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Apr
Apr
This delightful play is adapted from a children’s book I wrote called Sue finds Happy Eddie the Shy Shark. It is truly rewarding to imagine the wildest things just as a child would, to write about them in rhyme, and then see them interpreted and physically realised as a play. Below is the press release…
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Mar
Mar
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…
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Mar
Mar
Jet lagged and happy to be back – what a successful trip! From meetings in London where I am creative director for some new Save Our Seas Foundation displays, to the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Though we didn’t win any awards, I won many new friends and inspiration by meeting so many wonderful and…