Whale Coast Conservation has a vision for our area that all our communities will be sustainable and resilient. In the next year the Sustainability Awareness Project supported by the National Lottery Distribution Trust fund will focus on sustainable communities. A sustainable community is one that is economically, environmentally, and socially healthy. To make our communities sustainable we need to look …
Earth Hour 2014 – Schools Art Competition
On Saturday 29 March from 20h30 to 21h30 the lights will again be turned down as we symbolically show unity with at least 7,000 cities and towns in 150 countries who are all saying, “I care about my planet!” Here in Hermanus we are also promoting the message that doing small things in our daily lives can make a big …
So ‘Who Done It’?
Friday the 30th (not the 13th) was an evening of murder, mystery, fun and a little bit of madness when WCC staged its first attempt at a murder mystery. We like to think that our efforts at entertainment were not entirely unsuccessful. The sharp questions and the way the audience entered into the spirit of the faintly ridiculous, indicated that …
‘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, …
Watersmart Project
As mentioned in a previous newsletter, the Water Research Commission has given us funding to develop a social media water quiz, dubbed the Amanzi Quiz, for school learners. The duration of the contract is from June 2013 to June 2014. Receipt of funds is subject to achieving specific deliverables on a tightly defined timeline. We have already prepared a specification …
Hot, Hot, Hot….
Global Climate Change and What it means for the Overberg By Professor Michael Orren In this first part of a two part article, Professor Orren has a look at Global Climate Change in general. In the next issue he will analyse what the implications are for the Overberg. “Global warming” implies that the planet is warming regularly everywhere – …
Rhinos Are Real – And Little Ones Are Really Cute
“Rhinos are just big babies. They are afraid of everything – they even cry like babies. But what stands out about rhinos is the very strong bond between a rhino cow and her calf.” This is the way Dr William Fowlds, wildlife vet, described rhinos in a recent talk to members and guests of Whale Coast Conservation. In his work …
‘Waste Not, Save A Lot’
LIVING SUSTAINABLY WITH WHALE COAST CONSERVATION With the population and unemployment rising rapidly and social services already strained, it is time for all of us in the Overstrand to look to our future. We must ask ourselves two fundamental questions: – What natural resources does the Overstrand offer to help us to provide a better life for all? – More …
Piet se Bos Insect Outing
On the 5th of March we went to Piet se Bos. At Piet se Bos we looked for bugs.Karen Coates, who is a biologist,told us to put a cloth under a bush and hit it with a stick so that the bugs would fall on the cloth. We looked for about two hours and found a few bugs that we …