March 20, 2019 Dyer Island Conservation Trust The 2019 intake of the Dyer Island Conservation Trust’s Environmental Education Programme (DEEP), joined Greenpop’s Treevolution Reforest Festival this weekend in Platbos. This was an Eco-friendly, Zero Waste event for families to rebuild this indigenous ancient forest. It was a weekend filled with fun activities, puppet shows, forest walks, talent show and music and [...]
March 19, 2019 Dyer Island Conservation Trust In 2018, our penguin philanthropist, Mike Gibbs, kindly donated a special drawing of African penguins by Hermanus artist Malcolm Bowling. This picture went on silent auction at the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary (APSS). It finally has a home - with the Kendziorski family. The Kendziorski’s are from the USA and have been volunteering [...]
March 15, 2019 Dyer Island Conservation Trust “We are thrilled to have acoustic tagged two Great White Sharks from our research boat today!”, said shark biologist Alison Towner. It’s been over two years since a transmitter (tag) has been deployed on a white shark in Southern African waters largely due to their unpredictable distribution patterns, and a notable decline in white [...]
March 07, 2019 Dyer Island Conservation Trust On Tuesday the 5th March at 9 am, Anthony Fouche of Gansbaai documented the carcasses of eight large bronze whaler sharks at Die Plaat, Gansbaai. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust (DICT) / Marine Dynamics team were notified in the late afternoon and made their way down to the site to collect them. On arrival, [...]
Deceased white shark at Pearly Beach, Gansbaai February 09, 2017 Alison Towner At 7 am this morning a deceased white shark Carcharodon carcharias was reported to us at the Dyer Island Conservation Trust by Anton Barnard in Pearly Beach.
Faces of Need Penguin Project- Making a difference? January 17, 2013 by dyertrust With a conservation status of Endangered, and few remaining colonies in tact along the South African and Namibian coastline, it is inspiring to see to what lengths businesses will go to make a difference in the lives of the African Penguin. One of the biggest threats these birds [...]
SAVE ENDANGERED AFRICAN PENGUINS B y Aditi Deokar In February 2013 we brought you The African Penguins on Dyer Island, South Africa, can hear a strong little heart beating more than 14 500km away This strong little heart belongs to a bushy tailed, bright eyed, little lady, by the name of Aditi Deokar. Aditi is a 7 year old, grade 4 [...]
Southern Right Whale Annual Aerial Survey October 11, 2013 by dyertrust The Mammal Research Institute Whale Unit of the University of Pretoria will be able to do their annual helicopter survey of the southern right whale population over the first two to three weeks of October. This survey, to be carried out westwards from Natures Valley to Muizenberg, is the 35th [...]
Bottlenose Dolphin stranding at Romansbaai May 26, 2015 by dyertrust Bottlenose Dolphins are a common sight along the Overstrand coastline of South Africa. A welcome sight to tourists from all over with world, there is very few things as spectacular as seeing a pod of Dolphins playing the surf. On Friday the 21st of May a juvenile Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) [...]
DICT celebrates Whale Day with Gansbaai Primer, in the Overstrand. July 9, 2015 by dyertrust In honor of whale day, representatives from the International Marine Volunteers, the Dyer Island Conservation Trust and Marine Dynamics made a special visit to an elementary school, Gansbaai Primer, in the Overstrand. A story was told to the children in which a Right Whale begins its [...]
