Shoreline performers Common Octopus are always a crowd pleaser when exploring intertidal rock pools. Of all the marine creatures in an intertidal rock pool, they are the top performers, changing […]
In the last week of March 2023, two graphic examples of lethal marine entanglement with abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear (#ALDFG) were reported on a local Garden Route stranding […]
In conjunction with Knysna Basin Project, Strandloper Project volunteers conducted a clean up dive to remove lost and snagged recreational fishing gear on the eastern side of the channel flanking […]
If it was not for the senseless tragedy of this scene, the above image would be an amazing capture of an incredible keystone species. Instead, it is of a dead […]
Citizen Science Protecting Conserving the Reef. When the Strandloper Project began research into the impact of snagged recreational fishing tackle on reef cover and biodiversity, the core focus was on […]
The Knysna Seahorse (Hippocampus capensis)) is an endemic species to the south coast of South Africa and is found in only three estuaries, namely the Keurbooms, Knysna and Swartvlei estuaries. […]
Documenting the different methods of fishing tackle snagging. Since the onset of our reef surveys for snagged recreation fishing in January 2018, the Strandloper Project has been able to distinguish […]
This morning, visiting our fixed point photography locations at Gericke’s Point to get progress photographs of the reef condition, I decided to check under a shelf afterwards. There is a […]
While the humans are away, the wildlife comes out to play. This was definitely true at Buffalo Bay this morning. As part of the Strandloper Project, we have mapped evidence […]
Chasing Windmills and Sunbeams 