WHALE STRANDING AT ROMANSBAAISeptember 15, 2009 by dyertrustAfalse killer whale was found deceased onMonday 1 June 2009 stranded at a beach in Romansbaai in theWestern 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 researchers at the Mammal Research Institute [...]
2ND INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN PENGUIN CONFERENCESeptember 14, 2009 by dyertrustAfrican Penguin numbers now at all time low - Alarming decline in breeding colonies continues.Gansbaai,Western Cape,South Africa15th-18thApril 2009The 2ndInternational African Penguin Conference, organized by the Dyer Island Conservation Trust, took place from the15-18thApril 2009inGansbaai,Western Cape,South Africa.The conference brought together 80 delegates, both local and international, including conservation managers, research scientists, conservationists and seabird [...]
FYNBOS ECOTOURISM FORUM SUPPORTS DICT September 13, 2009 by dyertrust DICT was invited to attend the Fynbos Forumworkshop, held in Gansbaai. This was heldon 25th March 2009, themed Our Marine Environment. Talks presented included Mysteries of the Great Whites, Life between tides and Gansbaai pelagic fish industry. At the previous workshop in October 2008, Wilfred Chivell (founder of DICT) presented a [...]
FYNBOS ECOTOURISM FORUM SUPPORTS DICTSeptember 13, 2009 by dyertrustDICT was invited to attend the Fynbos Forumworkshop, held in Gansbaai.This was heldon 25th March 2009, themed Our Marine Environment. Talks presented included Mysteries of the Great Whites, Life between tides and Gansbaai pelagic fish industry. At the previous workshop in October 2008, Wilfred Chivell (founder of DICT) presented a talk concerning the [...]
DYER ISLAND CONSERVATION TRUST HONOURED FOR WORK AT BOULDERSSeptember 12, 2009 by dyertrustIKapa Honourary Rangers hand over 200 penguin nestsOn 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 penguin colony, near [...]
SEAL RESEARCHERS VISIT GEYSER ROCKSeptember 06, 2009 by dyertrustOn 10thFebruary 2009, Steve Kirkman and Martin Haupt, researchers who will be studying the movements and foraging behaviour of Cape Fur Seals, visited Geyser Rock, accompanied by Wilfred Chivell of the Dyer Island Conservation Trust.Scat samples were collected for dietary analysis and tests were carried out in order to assess whether the radio [...]
PENGUINS RELEASED ON DYER ISLANDAugust 28, 2009 by dyertrustOn 11 December 2008, after being hand reared at SANCCOB's seabird rehabilitation centre in Cape Town, a group of juvenile African penguins were released back into their home colony on Dyer Island after three months of intensive hand rearing and care.These penguins were rescued off the island by CapeNature officials and the Dyer [...]
DICT ATTENDS THE LAUNCH OF SACRED OCEAN - GLOBAL VOICES AGAINST THE CRUELTY OF WHALINGAugust 24, 2009 by dyertrustWilfred Chivell of DICT attended the launch of Sacred Ocean, a new global anti-whaling campaign by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, on Thursday 27 November 2008. Archbishop Desmond Tutu unveiled the iconic 3.4 [...]
COLLECTION OF SEAL SCAT ON GEYSER ROCKDecember 31, 2008 by dyertrustOn 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 them and [...]
AFRICAN PENGUIN AMBASSADORS IN ZOOS AND AQUARIADecember 19, 2008 by dyertrustThe 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 the meeting [...]