African Campus

African Campus is designed for students & adventurers to have the opportunity to live their passion whilst experiencing the magnificent beauty of Africa.

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@oceansresearch @moekajee @Simon_Elwen @seasearchafrica @DyerICT @oceans_research Thanks @oceansresearch. @African_Campus is on pause for a bit, through lockdown, but @oceans_research is still going strong, where we can!

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Its #FeatureFriday, and we're showcasing another intern blog. This time, our Oceans Research intern, Kristin Jones, shares with us how she felt when she saw her first white shark...

"My First White Shark Experience"

https://t.co/KcPSdiJLWh

#africancampus #whitesharks

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Happy #ThrowbackThursday

A year ago today, we captured this stunning group of common dolphins via the theodolite, for our Oceans Research cetacean study.

In Mossel Bay, we're lucky to see three different species of dolphins. Two of which, sometimes travel in superpods of 100s.

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A great photo taken via the theodolite, of a Southern right whale fluke.

The interns tracked several Southern rights during their cetacean study this week. They were excited to watch them breaching, fluking, and fin slapping.

#africancampus #whales

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Our tallest land animals, for #TerrestrialTuesday

Captured during her time with us, by past photography intern, @claireoreskovichphoto.

#africancampus #giraffes

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It's #MarineMonday 💙

Meet Vladimir, an 84cm male pyjama catshark.

He was observed for 48 hours as part of our stress response master's project.

After that time, he was released back to the ocean, and swam off strong, having provided valuable data for the project.

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It's #ThrowbackThursday!

Do you remember this photo from last year? Who can guess which animal these paws belong to?

#africancampus #wildlife

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It's #WaterWednesday 💙

Our Oceans Research team made a great effort to collect debris found during a shark & skate egg case collection.
We were quite shocked by the volume of fishing line and fishing gear we found, but we're happy we removed it before it could entangle sealife

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It's #TerrestrialTuesday!

"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud." Carl Sandburg

Great capture of these hippos leaving the watering hole, at the game reserve our interns visited during their time with us.

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It's #MarineMonday 💙

Check out a snipit of the video by our Oceans Research intern, Brice Schrenkel.

"This has been the most incredible opportunity of my life to work side by side with this fascinating and poorly misunderstood shark species... https://t.co/2DchrpLI3o

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#ThrowbackThursday!

It's been a year since our shavathon for the youngest in our African Campus family, after Alba lost her hair during chemo treatment for leukemia. Today we're happy to say that Alba's treatments are going very well, and her hair has grown back nicely 🥰

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Don't forget #TerrestrialTuesday... the elephant our intern, Christina Lefebvre, captured this stunning photo of, certainly won't forget!

Our interns get the opportunity to see our Big Five terrestrial animals, during their time with us.

#africancampus #elephant

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For #MarineMonday, our August interns release a pyjama catshark.

This female shark, was caught for a project headed up by intern Melanie Venet. She is studying parasites, such as isopods and copepods, on our smaller shark species.

#africancampus #sharks

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It's #FeatureFriday!

And National Women's Day here in South Africa, so what better way to celebrate our amazing female interns, than sharing a blog written by one of them. Here's the blog intern Kristina Betz (left in photo), wrote during her internship.

https://t.co/vFJKCSEVqd

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Our great friend @ABC4EXPLORE is truly inspirational as always 💙

One person can make a difference. Watch this video to the end, and be the change.

https://t.co/2cVo1OzBzw

#PeopleThatInspireChange #PlasticSucks #KeepFinAlive

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It's #ThrowbackThursday 💙

Welcome back Jenna Cheramie! Jenna, an Oceans Research intern from last year, is back visiting us.

Jenna says that to describe her Oceans Research experience as the most incredible experience of her life, wouldn't do it justice.

#africancampus

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It's #WaterWednesday 💙

We are so proud of these young champions.

Sea the Change students are getting closer to carrying out their lifeguard examination. Despite the hard work involved, they continue to keep smiling, with so much enthusiasm.

#africancampus #seathechange

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Our interns, getting ready to hit the safari for #TerrestrialTuesday.

They spent the weekend with lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles and more!

#africancampus #safari

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Check out our media intern, Taylor's video for #MarineMonday.

It delves into some of our local's relationships to our white sharks, and how coexistence can occur... https://t.co/tcOCU5iiYP

#africancampus #africancampusmedia #whitesharks

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For #FeatureFriday, we're sharing another amazing blog, written by one of our July Oceans Research interns, Christina Lefebvre. "Came for the sharks, left with a family..."

https://t.co/u92qc1dAF6