DICT Nominated by TICE Committee as their beneficiary December 10, 2009 by dyertrust Early November saw our supervisors,The DICT was incredibly grateful to the TICE committee for nominating the Trust as one of three beneficiaries at their annual charity event. The evening was a black tie affair at the Cape Town International Convention Centre and the tourism industry was out in [...]
ISA CARSTENS FUNDRAISING DAY November 16, 2009 by dyertrust The Isa Carstens Health and Skin Care Academy in Stellenbosch, is a valued supporter of the Dyer Island Conservation Trusts African Penguin Housing Project as their Social Responsibility project. The schools uniform is black and white and this has led to the students being labelled penguins. Every year, the students of the [...]
HERMANUS WHALE FESTIVAL October 02, 2009 by dyertrust This year at the Whale Festival we had an Enviro Marquee to celebrate the Marine Big 5Whales, sharks, dolphins, penguins and seals. Our icon was Wally the Whale who was a hit with the children. aclean (Sharklady) on the work of the Save our Seas Foundation.She shared the documentarySharks in Deep Troublewhich raises [...]
Launch of our research boat October 19, 2009 by dyertrust by DICTs Marine Biologist Alison Towner Hello to all the shark supporters and welcome to the first blog for the DICT white shark research program. We are so excited to finally have contact with all of those who have donated towards our shark project and aim to keep you fully informed [...]
DYER ISLAND CONSERVATION TRUST MAKES DONATION TO PENGUINS-EASTERN CAPE December 30, 2009 by dyertrust On the 26th November 2008, the Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT), made a donation of R10 000 to Penguins-Eastern Cape (PEC), a marine bird rehabilitation centre situated in Cape St. Francis. The centre is dedicated to mitigating the human impact on marine birds and mammals through emergency [...]
MARINE MONTH October 30, 2009 by dyertrust October has been declared Marine Month and Monday 19th October was a beautiful day for a coastal clean up. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT) with the assistance of a very enthusiastic Grade 6 class from Blompark Primary, led by Mr Dreyer, did just that. DICT was given yellow garbage bags and data cards [...]
WESTERN CAPE DIE VOORTREKKERS GRADE 7 BUY A PENGUIN HOME October 03, 2009 by dyertrust On Wednesday, 30 September, we took a drive to Bettys Bay to meet with the Grade7 students of Die Voortrekker. Every year that grade gets together to learn more about the African Penguin, and together they bought a very important piece of real estate: an African [...]
DONATION FROM AFRICAN DESTINATIONS October 29, 2009 by dyertrust The Trust is very grateful to members of Virtuoso African Destinations who generously donated R10 000 for dedicated use in whale disentanglements. Wilfred Chivell has been involved in numerous whale disentanglements and officially belongs to the South African Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN)apartnership with
AFRICAN PENGUIN CHICKS RESCUED October 01, 2009 by dyertrust On Lauren Wallers (PhD researcher) nest rounds last week she came across a nest where previously the adults were incubating two eggs. Being interested to see what happens to this nest as it is very late in the season for penguins to be incubating and they should be coming to the end [...]
MASS WHALE STRANDING IN CAPE TOWN September 19, 2009 by dyertrust On30thMay 2009, a mass false killer whale stranding occurred at Kommetjie inCape Town.Meredith Thornton, Manager of Cetacean Research (Mammal Research Institute,UniversityofPretoria, based at Iziko Museums ofCape Town) provided us with the following information on the incident. False killer whale strandings occur very rarely inSouth Africa.Such a situation has to be [...]