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Save Our Seas Holiday Club Programme 2-4 July Our Save Our Seas Shark Centre’s July Holiday Club has successfully grown in popularity over the last few years! This year we received an enormouse response from the public and were fully booked within days of advertising the programme. Kids will always…

Weekly speaker series will run until the end of July, informing the public on shark and marine conservation The Marine Conservation Speaker Series kicked off yesterday, Thursday 28 June, at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre in Kalk Bay with a full house and roaring success! Meaghen McCord and Tamzyn…

Marine Conservation Speaker Series – Informing the public on shark and marine conservation The Marine Conservation Speaker Series kicks off tonight Thursday 28 June, with two Save Our Seas supported researchers who are currently working for the South African Shark Conservancy (http://www.sharkconservancy.org/), Meaghen McCord and Tamzyn Zweig. Bull sharks (Carcharhinus…

The Save Our Seas Shark Centre has teamed up with Biomimmicary SA to expand on their kids holiday club which will be held at the beginning of July 2012. Two programmes will be offered to cater for different age groups, and costs vary from R50pp/day for the holiday club to…

Among the many school groups visting the Save Our Seas Shark Centre this week, we hosted a group of grade sixes from Prince George Primary. Because a visit to even the closest of beaches is not always within reach for these youngsters, we made the most of the spring low…

The Save Our Seas Shark Centre proudly presents the Marine Conservation Speaker Series. Various researchers and experts will be sharing their knowledge and passion for sharks and marine conservation, by giving free talks to the public. Education and awareness is key to making a difference, so come listen, learn and…

The Save Our Seas Foundation supports scientists and researchers in funding marine conservation projects around the world, to help protect and raise awareness on major threats to our oceans. To date, we have funded over 150 projects in the last 10 years. This year (2012-2013), along with the Save Our…

Lauren de Vos, the new research assistant at the University of Cape Town’s Marine Research Institute, shares her passion for conservation and her 2012 project for False Bay. Given that one of Lauren’s earliest childhood memories is of her tucked up in a tree with her fluffy toy leopard, instructing…

We’ve had yet another busy month of running educational children’s programmes at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, reaching almost six hundred youngsters during the month of March. Calm seas and day after day of windless, sunny weather has afforded the learners with some exceptional rockpooling conditions, and we’ve been…

Today, the Save Our Seas Shark Centre invited Grade 3’s from Star of the Sea Primary School to take part in the unveiling of the new fibreglass shark sculpture which was erected outside the centre. The shark has been named ‘Nicole’, in light of the first ever recorded White Shark…

We met up with Chris Bladen, artist of the White Shark sculpture for the Save Our Seas Shark Centre, to chat a little more about his work. Chris Bladen is a South African craftsman who translates his passion for fly fishing into an art form. Ever since catching his first…

It’s been a busy week at the Save Our Seas Shark Centre. As well as a steady stream of public visiting the Centre, we’ve had 223 primary school children on our education programmes this week. Learners from Zwaanswyk, Habibia and Harmony Primary schools were all treated to perfect weather, calm…

The Save Our Seas Shark Centre welcomed shark researcher Gabriel Vianna, to stay with us at the centre from 6 to 9 February 2012. Here’s more details about his visit to South Africa. 1) Who are you, where are you from, and what are you studying? My name is Gabriel…

It’s very impressive when a young, high school student cares enough about a cause to take initiative. So when 9th grader, Sophie Schmidt, asked the Save Our Seas Shark Centre to talk to Westerford High School’s Animal Rights Advocates group, we were very happy to oblige. We arrived on 7…

In recognition of World Wetlands Day on 2 February, Save Our Seas Shark Centre staff joined enthusiastic youngsters from Paul Greyling Primary School and volunteers from Friends of Silvermine Nature Area (FOSNA) to fight local wetlands degradation along the Silvermine River. Ongoing wetland degradation is a world-wide issue, with some…