NURDLE ALERT! November 06, 2017 Dyer Island Conservation Trust The Dyer Island Conservation Trust, Overstrand Municipality and South African Shark Conservancy are working on a project to collect nurdles in the Overstrand area as part of a larger study to investigate the distribution and movement of nurdles along the entire South African coast following a disastrous spill in the Durban Harbour. [...]
DICT Celebrates African Penguin Awareness Day October 15, 2017 Dyer ISland Conservation Trust The Dyer Island Conservation Trust team embraced African Penguin Awareness Day with education, a penguin release and a fun concert by DICT’s environmental education group. Pinkey Ngewu and Mervin Visagie visited the local Gansbaai primary schools where they enlightened students about the plight of this endangered species by [...]
DEEP Goes Camping! October 09, 2017 Dyer Island Conservation Trust The Dyer Island Conservation Trust works with dedicated learners from Masakhane Primary school and runs for three years to monitor and evaluate their progress and impact Environmental Education can do to young kids. At the end of each year learners from the first and second year go on an educational camp. [...]
DICT DOES ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT THE HERMANUS WHALE FESTIVAL 2017 October 02, 2017 Dyer Island Conservation Trust Since 2009 the Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT) has been part of the eco marine tent and this year the team once again played a critical role in educating festival goers about whales, sharks and the endangered African penguin. The Trust’s corporate sponsor, Volkswagen [...]
Gansbaai: International Coastal Clean-up Day September 18, 2017 Dyer Island Conservation Trust Annually, the world unites in a coastal clean-up initiative. Data collected from this day feeds into a national and international database with Ocean Conservancy who started this global action. This year the Dyer Island Conservation Trust partnered with Volkswagen, Marine Dynamics and Overstrand Municipality in support of International Coastal [...]
THE TRUE STORY OF A WHITE SHARK'S JOURNEY August 28, 2017 dyerisland There was a festive atmosphere at the Marine Dynamics / Penguin Random House launch of “Nicole” by author Richard Peirce. “Nicole” tells the story of the iconic great white shark that swam 22000kms from South Africa to Australia and back in less than nine months. The book also highlights [...]
Posing for Penguins August 09, 2017 Brenda du Toit There was preening and fluffing of feathers, not at the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary (APSS), but for the ten winners of the Pose for Penguins makeover. This fundraising initiative for APSS was the brainchild of Nicolene Richards and Karin Franken and in just a couple of weeks raised an incredible R10 200 [...]
Shark Awareness Day 2017 July 14, 2017 Brenda du Toit The main purpose of the annual Shark Awareness Day is exactly that – creating awareness of sharks as a critical part of our oceans. Sharks are a large group of fish that have inhabited the oceans for over 400 million years. There are over 500 species of sharks in the ocean [...]
67 Minutes for Mandela Day July 18, 2017 67 Minutes for Mandela Day The Marine Dynamics team thinks 67 minutes for Madiba is too short a time to do all the good that needs to be done and so makes it our way of life. When Madiba day comes along, we believe in keeping it local and where best to start [...]
Sperm Whale Washes Up In Gansbaai July 03, 2017 Brenda du Toit A sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) recently washed up in the Pearly Beach area of Gansbaai. As a deep water whale found in most of the world's ocean, they are not often seen close to shore so this carcass provides a rare opportunity for scientific sampling which is what the [...]
