Fish For the Future
Ocean Harvest As South Africans prepare for their summer break with the annual rush to our beautiful coastline, many will be planning to spend time indulging in some shore based […]
Category Archives: Ecosystem
Strandloper Project survey sites in the garden Route
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 […]
Reef assessment in the Garden Route
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 […]
A Mouth of Controversy
Blinded by Nature The state of the Swartvlei estuary mouth is a topic that polarizes the community of Segdefield. Located in the Garden Route between Wilderness and Knysna, the coastal […]
Glimpses beneath the waves.
A Green Turtle, like all other marine turtles, has become the ‘Panda’ of marine conservation. The incredible journey of over 35000km by Yoshi, a Green Turtle released with a GPS […]
Livestock Shepherding to Reduce Wildlife Conflict and Foster Biodiversity On Livestock Farms in the Karoo, South Africa.
Global Populations and Agriculture Threaten Biodiversity. As the world rallies to combat the global risk of climate change and population growth, urgent action to implement a balance to conserve natural […]
Marine biodiversity disrupted by recreational fishing entanglements and discards in the Garden Route.
On the 30th June, members of the Strandloper Project set off down to their primary reef transect at Gericke’s Point to attempt a reef survey and to recover snagged recreational […]
An expedition through human origins
When we began our plans for the Strandloper Project coastal expedition, the route was chosen with careful consideration. Ghost Fishing at Gericke’s Point. From our ghost fishing studies at Gericke’s […]
Strandloper Project hunts down Dirty Dozen in the Garden Route.
Plastic Pollution is the Modern Landscape. They are everywhere. In parks, along the beach, in the dunes and lining forest paths. Trash has become an everyday sighting. In a country […]
Strandloper Project takes on Ghost fishing and marine plastics in the Garden Route.
The seemingly harmless simplicity of snagged fishing tackle on a reef at Gericke’s Point near Sedgefield in the Garden Route. Snagged hooks like this, with fresh bait still on, pose […]
Chasing Windmills and Sunbeams 