August is a busy month with our volunteers and interns September 18, 2011 by dyertrust August was a great month for the volunteers and interns. We had loads of sea time and little time on land. Sharon and Stephen from the UK, was our first married couple to join our programme. They were a real asset to our programme and always [...]
WHALE FESTIVAL 24-27 SEPTEMBERSeptember 23, 2009 by dyertrustDICTwill be at the Whale Festival 24-27 September in Hermanus, at the Enviro Expo marquee on the lawn in front of the Village Square Waterfront Piazza.Fascinating talks on the Marine Big 5 will be held on the Saturday and SundayToreadmore& see the scheduled programme go to.Gansbaai,Western Cape,South Africa15th-18thApril 2009The 2ndInternational African Penguin Conference, organized [...]
ABSA DONATES MATERIAL TO NOLWANDLE CRAFTSSeptember 16, 2009 by dyertrustABSA Gansbaai handed over a generous donation.The Nolwandle Crafts Project was established by theThe whales migrate from their feeding grounds in the Antarctic region to the South African coastline for their annual breeding/calving season. Whale activity should soon start picking up in the next month or so with the appearance of mating [...]
WHALE STRANDING AT ROMANSBAAI September 15, 2009 by dyertrust A false killer whale was found deceased on Monday 1 June 2009 stranded at a beach in Romansbaai in the Western Cape. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust was alerted of the stranding and arrived at the scene to photograph the animal and to take vital measurements and samples to be analysed by [...]
DYER ISLAND CONSERVATION TRUST HONOURED FOR WORK AT BOULDERS September 12, 2009 by dyertrust IKapa Honourary Rangers hand over 200 penguin nests On 3 March 2009, the iKapa Honourary Rangers handed over 200 artificial penguin nests, specially designed by the Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT), to the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) in an attempt to boost the Boulders Beach African [...]
AFRICAN PENGUIN AMBASSADORS IN ZOOS AND AQUARIA December 19, 2008 by dyertrust The 25th Annual Conference of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria was hosted by Antwerp Zoo in Belgium from the 16 to 20 September 2008. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust was invited to address the Penguin group on the wild African Penguins. Wilfred Chivell and Lauren Waller attended [...]
RISSO DOLPHIN STRANDED AT DANGER POINT September 21, 2009 by dyertrust A Rissos dolphin stranded at Danger Point on the 30th of July. This was the first dolphin of this species that we know to have stranded here. Meredith Thornton, Manager of Cetacean Research (Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, based at Iziko Museums of Cape Town) provided us with the [...]
COLLECTION OF SEAL SCAT ON GEYSER ROCK December 31, 2008 by dyertrust On the 31st October 2008, Steve Kirkman (of Marine and Coastal Management) and Wilfred Chivell (founder of DICT) visited Geyser Rock to collect seal scat samples for an ongoing diet monitoring study. Collecting the scats found on the surface of the colony is preferable to shooting seals or immobilizing [...]
A busy July for Alison Towner and the Great white sharksJuly 26, 2011 by dyertrustJuly 2011Studying great white sharks for the last five years in Gansbaai, I have often found myself out at sea wondering just what the sharks are up to on the other side of the headland- in False Bay. I have often imagined the same sharks I am [...]
Comments from our Marine VolunteersJuly 22, 2011 by dyertrustSome comments from our past Marine volunteers and Interns: