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Many cities around the world have a problem because people generate too much waste. Mountains of garbage are piling up at landfill sites so they have to be closed sooner than necessary and a new site developed. No one wants a landfill site near them so finding suitable new sites…

Rockpooling is a fun family activity! There are so many fascinating creatures for you to discover. Here are a few tips to help you get started. When to go: It is very important to check for the tide times for your chosen beach. The best time to go is at…

The June holidays seem like a distant memory now that the kids have all gone back to school and the third term is in full swing. Looking back at the pictures from our June holiday club programme reminded me that learning can be fun! Here are some pictures of the…

We live on a blue planet. One whose surface is 70% covered by water. But of that water, only 3% is fresh water, and less than 1% is actually available to life on earth! This fact was brought home quite dramatically to Cape Town when we experienced a severe drought.…

At the beginning of the school holidays, the Save our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre arranged a three day Marine Camp for School learners from Capricorn Primary School. Nineteen excited children arrived at the Soetwater Environmental Centre near Kommetjie for an educational but activity-filled experience of the ocean shore ecosystem.…

A typical school group visit to the Shark Education Centre generates a considerable amount of plastic waste during snack break time. We are encouraging all school groups (and therefore all parents whose children visit our centre) to cut down on the packaging used in packed lunches. There are three very…

  This group of excited Marine Explorers had their first snorkel lesson at Pisces Divers pool on the 12th of April 2019. Everybody was very excited because this was going to be their first day in the water with masks, snorkels and fins. Since then, we have done another pool…

Last year the Shark Education Centre developed a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system to measure its social and environmental impact. We built a framework to look at short-, mid- and long-term outcomes and assigned indicators for each of these outcomes which will help us reach our desired educational impact…

We took a look back at 2018 and how many people came to visit us at the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre.  We are so pleased to see how many school children and members of the public had the opportunity to come and see what we offer here…

Instead of searching your garden for Easter eggs this year, how about searching for real eggs? I don’t mean the foil wrapped, delicious chocolate ones or even the eggs laid by hens, the eggs I’m referring to actually come from underwater creatures, such as sharks, skates and chimaeras. The mother…

An Eco-brick is a 2L bottle, stuffed to the brim with trash items that cannot be recycled. E.g chip packets, sweet wrappers, cling wrap, straws, laminated paper etc. Check with your local recycling depot as these items vary in terms of what can be recycled per location. An Eco-brick can…

“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.” (Baba Dioum, 1968) When school groups visit the Shark Education Centre, we teach them about the wonders of the sea. Some of the kids…

The Marine Explorers group from Capricorn Primary have really taken to the surfing lessons this term.  Our aim is to positively connect these children to the ocean and what better way than learning how to safely ride some fun little waves at Muizenberg.

The Shark Education Centre’s aim is to connect people to the Ocean. We do this through our experiential education programme which encourages learning through play! Our interactive lessons focus on sharks and the local marine ecosystem. The lessons are adapted to ensure we reach children whether they are in Grade…

In 2014 the decision was made to re-invent the Shark Centre at Kalk Bay as the Save Our Seas Foundation’s Shark Education Centre, which would focus specifically on school-level education – although adults would also be welcome! In order to do this, educational staff would have to be appointed and…