Research has begun for 2016

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February research blog. Well February has seemed to just fly by and Minke Witteveen, the new researcher who joined the ORCA Foundation, has been busy settling in and getting ready for a jam-packed and exciting year ahead! We officially started a project collecting elasmobranch egg cases in collaboration with Lisa Schroeter from ELMO (ELasmobranch Monitoring […]

Green is the new black – saving water

This week consider your “water footprint” and how much water you use on a daily basis. Take these tips to heart, and consider how little effort they will require to make a large contribution to the health of your planet; Place a brick or plastic bottled filled with sand into your toilet cistern. The brick […]

Green is the new black – greening your house

Anyone with a conservation-minded philosophy, or simply a passion for nature, should want to live consciously and conserve the natural resources that they use on a daily basis, as well as contribute towards restoration of those that they have already used. However, many of us see this as a daunting task, or believe that changing […]

Something to think about… (taken from “The World is Blue” by S Earle)

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea. But yet,.. Hundreds of millions of tons of […]

Magic moment of the week: What amazing luck

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What amazing luck we had when on a hike to Salt river we ran across a puff adder shy shark dead on the beach.  We took the opportunity to conduct a dissection on the animal to learn more about the shark’s internal anatomy and possibly determine why she died.  We later returned her to the water for nature to […]