I grew up influenced by the well-known fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” (Danish: Den lille havfrue) by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. In […]
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Where are the sardines?
I came all the way down from Germany to the East coast of South Africa to watch one of the world’s top wildlife spectacles on Earth: The Sardine Run! Every year millions of sardines migrate from the cold waters of the south of South Africa to the warmer waters, just along South Africa’s east coast. […]
Best briefing in the world: “There is the water… jump!“
Learning from the best in the world is what this scholarship year is about. I’m in South Africa thanks to Michael Aw, an incredible passionate underwater photographer and director of Ocean Geographic magazine. He not just invited me to join him to one of the most delightful spectacles on Earth (the Sardine Run), but is […]
Shark Ecotourism 101: Healthy interactions
I am in Coll, a remote, stunning Scottish island and an internationally recognized basking shark “hotspot”. The purpose of my visit was to learn how to have high quality encounters with these plankton-feeders without harming them. Shane Wasik, the owner of Basking Shark Scotland helped me understand why and how we should take care of […]