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 [...]
SEAL RESEARCHERS VISIT GEYSER ROCK September 06, 2009 by dyertrust On 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 [...]
Welcome to our Volunteer/Intern blog March 07, 2011 by dyertrust We have had and excellent group of volunteers and interns for the month of January stretching from all around the world. We can actually say it was the United Nations in Kleinbaai for this month. There was Noelle -USA, Blair and BenAustralia, UrielNetherlands, MaireadIreland, DavidUK, NicoleUSA and IngoGermany. The sharks for [...]
BEACH CLEAN UPS June 07, 2011 by dyertrust The Dyer Island Conservation Trust recently led two beach clean ups, both. The first was as part of the Football Foundations educational programme with scholars from Masakhane. Together with Wilfred Chivell, the team eagerly cleaned up a stretch from the Strandveld Museum in Franskraal. This area yielded a full bag of fishing line [...]
WORLD OCEANS DAY EDUCATIONAL LESSON June 08, 2011 by dyertrust On World Oceans Day, 8 June,people from all over the globe honour this incredible resource. The theme is Youth-The Next Wave for Change. The Dyer Island Conservation Trust took the opportunity to have an educational lesson on our Marine Big 5 with the Football Foundations Group from Masakhane School. This was [...]
MS OLIVA RUNS AGROUND ON NIGHTINGALE ISLANDMay 12, 2011 by dyertrustMS Oliva ran aground on Nightingale Island on 16th March 2011 and is leaking oilAs perWaddling for a Week23rd to 28th May 2011From Gansbaai to BouldersAn Animal Keepers Association Africa (AKAA) - Endangered Species Annual Awareness CampaignThis Campaign will raise awareness of the plight of our very own African Penguin which [...]