Entanglements from discarded and lost fishing gear.
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 […]
Category Archives: Marine mammal stranding
Marine Protected Areas generating sustainable marine abundance.
Community understanding ‘Hoe veel het julle gevang?’ I asked the two fishermen staring out to a grey violent ocean. I was on the Kleinkrans beach documenting the corpse of a […]
Strandloper Project : Planning Expedition 2020
Time to gear up for the Strandloper Project Expedition 2020. Following our inaugural research expedition between Blombos and Wilderness last year, this year we will be hiking from Nature’s […]
Marine Stranding’s in the Garden Route : information for rescue, handling and recovery.
Washed up. The Southern Cape coastline boasts a dynamic ocean and shoreline driven by strong winds and strong currents and the relatively shallow seabed of the Agulhas Bank which extends […]
Chasing Windmills and Sunbeams 