On Sunday, 21 July, marine biologist Amy Webber, volunteer manager Etienne Roets, skipper Hennie Odendaal and 2 of the Marine Dynamics Academy scientific interns left Kleinbaai Harbour aboard research vessel Lwazi. In collaboration with the Acoustic Tracking Array Platform (ATAP), the team from the Dyer Island Conservation Trust and Marine Dynamics Academy went out with the goal of retrieving previous receivers [...]
Thanks to a grant from the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) that allows us to deploy a specialised seabird ranger on Dyer Island, the African penguins and other seabirds on Dyer Island now have an extra pair of eyes to watch over them. DCF grant recipients are selected based on their efforts to implement comprehensive community wildlife conservation programs, stabilise, and increase [...]
The African penguin is on the brink of possible extinction in the wild within the next decade. Partnerships are vital in the ongoing effort to stabilise the African penguin population numbers. This is one of the reasons that African penguins are at the heart of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that exists between CapeNature, the custodian of the Western Cape’s natural [...]
