After several months spent anxiously awaiting feedback from the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) grant committee, we were awarded last Friday when Rupert Ormond - chief scientist with the SOSF - sent us an email stating our Zambezi shark grant application was successful.
This marks an exciting development for SASC which has, until now, conducted our Breede River Zambi research on a shoe-string budget (to say the least!!). The grant will enable us to purchase much-needed equipment such as VR2s (underwater receivers for passive shark tracking), coded tags and our very own VR100 to actively track the tagged sharks.
We are so grateful to the SOSF for their grant, and we look forward the further development of our working relationship with them. We also look forward to spending as much time as possible on the river, getting to know the sharks a little bit better.
For information on the SOSF and the fantastic work they support, visit their website: http://www.saveourseas.com/
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