South Africa has established a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) to help conserve marine biodiversity and support the sustainable use of its marine resources, including around its sub-Antarctic possessions, the Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean in 2013 (click here). The South African Mint has this year commemorated the establishment of the […]
Graduation day: Dom Rollinson outside the entrance to the FitzPatrick Institute on the University of Cape Town campus Dominic Rollinson has this month been awarded his Doctorate by the University of Cape Town (UCT) for his study of seabird bycatch by pelagic longliners in the waters surrounding South Africa. Dom’s thesis research was co-supervised by […]
Peter Ryan on Stoltenhoff Island with Nightingale Island in the background. Photograph by Norman Glass Peter Ryan, A-rated Director of the University of Cape Town’s Percy FitzPatrick Institute, has been awarded the Gilchrist Memorial Medal by the South African Network for Coastal and Oceanic Research (SANCOR). Peter manages the Institute’s research on albatrosses and petrels […]
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