Tuning in: Protect the monkeys in Pennington
Guest speaker Tracy Rowles from Umsizi Vervet Rescue Centre will educate on how monkeys and humans can live together in harmony.
Stop the shooters! Protect our monkeys. Join the Pennington folk at Relton Hall, Pennington this Saturday (21st) at 10:30.
Let us come together as a community and put a stop to the illegal and cruel shooting of monkeys. Guest speaker Tracy Rowles from Umsizi Vervet Rescue Centre will educate us on how monkeys and humans can live together in harmony.
The Pennington Crime Watch will be informing us on what steps to take should you hear your neighbour shooting at the monkeys or know of any pellet gun shooters in your street. It is your turn to be the voice for the voiceless. Evil flourishes when good men stand by and do nothing.
Mary McKenzie writes: “I volunteered for many years and could never understand why people would not do the same! Now I do!”
It’s great to be able to call someone about a problem, ask them to fix it and walk away patting yourself on your back for a job well done.
Sunday morning, I saw a net on the rocks just to the north of the tidal pool on Pennington beach. It looks like it might have come from a shipping trawler, probably carelessly thrown overboard as no longer of use?
All I could think about was that net back in the sea at high tide creating untold injury to our beautiful marine life. What to do? A friend and I thought we should attempt to drag it up beyond the tide mark – There was absolutely no way! And so I called the Pennington Conservancy – Niel Van Zijl and Viv Sandwith and I must add that this was very early in the morning.
What a great response. They got a team together and were on the beach by 08:00, but the net proved to be too big, too heavy and impossible to move and so they called for help, but they did it!
A big thank you to all those that removed the net and ensured the safety of our marine life – you are the true heroes of this story.”
The Sanctuary of the Great White Light, 9 Barrow Street Umkomaas will be holding its Clairvoyant Day on May 28 from 09:00 – 14:30. For more information and bookings contact 083 6545261.
A Pennington mum is asking for help for her children. Shawn Schlebusch (14) and Megan Schlebusch (16)are going on tour for rugby and hockey and need sponsorship.
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