We are thrilled to announce that Peter Chadwick will be the guest speaker at our members’ talk on Tuesday 17 March at 17h30 at the Green House. His topic is “Conservation Photography and Conserving South Africa’s Seabirds”. As a dedicated conservationist, Peter Chadwick has 30 years of strategic and operational conservation experience in terrestrial and marine protected area management. This …
Fernkloof Integrated Management Plan
The draft IMP is a good document that has been drawn up with a great deal of input from the Overstrand environmental staff and the Fernkloof Advisory Board. Your comments can make it even better, especially with regard to the types of development you would like to see or not see in the reserve.
Thought Provoking Talk by Richard Peirce
Richard Peirce, well known shark conservationist and author of the recently published book The Poachers Moon gave a thought-provoking talk at the Green House at the end of November. The thesis of his talk was that the many NGOs working in the area of wildlife conservation are perhaps sending out the wrong message themselves. In order to publicise the good …
Earth Hour 2014
Whale Coast Conservation is bringing a whale of a festival to Fisherman’s Village in Hermanus in celebration of Earth Hour. It will be a day-long festival of education and entertainment that will lead visitors on a journey through education and trade into “Moonlight Avenue”, and a unique “Market by Moonlight”. The highlight of the whole event will be the hour …
‘Trashed’ Film
WCC is delighted to be the first in South Africa to secure the rights for screening the film “Trashed” in which actor Jeremy Irons takes us on a journey around the world, showing us how we are ‘drowning in trash’. And what do we do with all this rubbish? “We buy it, we bury it, we burn it and then …
WCC At Hermanus Flower Festival
Whale Coast Conservation will be exhibiting at the Hermanus Flower Festival to be held in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve from 26 to 29 September 2013. The theme is wetlands and the WCC display will use a ‘wetland in a bottle’ to demonstrate how wetlands work and the essential ecosystem services they provide. Two of our YES students, Denfred and Zöhn, …
Simon Nicks
Simon Nicks is Managing Director of CNdV africa, a firm of urban designers, environmental planners and landscape architects. He has a B.Com. (Natal) and BAS MCRP MCPUD (Cape Town). He is a registered town and regional planner and a member of several planning and design institutes, councils and associations. He has worked on numerous urban planning projects with provincial and …
WCC & Rivendell Estate Rhino Conservation MOU
WHALE COAST CONSERVATION AND RIVENDELL ESTATE JOIN HANDS FOR RHINO CONSERVATION Spring arrived this first weekend of September with the Botriviera Spring Weekend at Rivendell Estate. The ‘pink’ theme included the Rivendell Rosé and the pink flowers decorating ‘Wetsi’ the wire replica of a rhino orphan. As part of the festivities Whale Coast Conservation and Rivendell Estate joined hands in …
What is a Patch of Fynbos Worth?
Summary of a talk to the Hermanus Botanical Society by Anina Lee and Sheraine van Wyk The Hermanus Botanical Society’s annual Soup-and-Sherry evening took place on Friday 20 July. Anina Lee, Whale Coast Communications Manager, and Sheraine van Wyk, WCC Environmental Education Manager, were the guest speakers. The topic was the sustainability of Fernkloof Nature Reserve in the face of …