Last week Anchor's Director Dr Barry Clark presented at the Council Chambers to the City of Cape Town Section 80 Committee on a new Cape Town Marine Outfalls environmental Monitoring Program 🔬🫧 Water&SanitationRSA

Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day 2024 highlights a commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health. How are you celebrating? #EarthDayEveryDay EARTHDAY.ORG-AFRICA

Our recent aerial surveys of coastal & marine resource use in Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area SANParks TMNP The Nature Conservancy in Africa🚁Data will aid conservation & management of the MPA which provides significant ecosystem services to South Africans. Funder The Nature Conservancy

Three Anchor staff recently completed their Class V Commercial Scientific Diving training through University of Cape Town's Research Diving Unit, adding to our complement of divers. A challenging yet enjoyable experience - well done to our new divers!🤿 UCT

Today is UN World Wildlife Day! The most prominent global annual event dedicated to wildlife #WWD2024 Launched in December 2013 the UN General Assembly to coincide with the day of signing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Anchor are sampling water quality and benthic macrofauna in the Maputo Estuary, Mozambique. We use a hand deployed CTD to assess water quality & a Van Veen grab for benthic invertebrates that live in the estuary. Results will inform the current ecological status of the estuary

The upcoming IMCC7: International Marine Conservation Congress will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from October 13-18, 2024. 🌍

With over 800 delegates in attendance, IMCC is the single largest gathering of ocean conservationists in the world. 🌊

IMCC7 has extended the deadline to submit workshop, focus group, and symposia proposals to February 22nd.
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IMCC7 is offering a 20% registration discount for symposia leads from developing countries !

Submit your proposals here : scbmarineprogram.org/meetings-imcc7…

STATEMENT: The first-ever ‘State of the World’s Migratory Species’ report is sobering news for butterflies to whales

If governments fulfill commitments, then the next report will have some good news, says WCS's Sue Lieberman.

More: bit.ly/3UDaHeN #CMSCOP14

📢 Underwater Imagery Workshop!

Anchor in the field in beautiful Pemba Bay, Mozambique, collecting data on water quality, birds and mangroves to inform a Best Practicable Environmental Option and a Dispersion Modelling Study