Rainer Schimpf: July 2008: Kudu Award

OCEAN Messengers, the fledgling Port Elizabeth marine conservation NGO, has scooped a major prize at SANParks‘s Kudu Awards. The organisation won the category for best publication/programme/website for a documentary made in Algoa Bay. The NGO‘s founder, Rainer Schimpf, was at the function recently to receive the plaque, a bronze statuette – and R20000. Thanking the organisation‘s members and supporters, Schimpf said the success of the film, also called Ocean Messengers, needed to be “converted into action”. The prize money would be used to spark this action, but the hope was that more companies and institutions would come forward to help fund studies of Algoa Bay, “which is one of the top marine areas internationally in terms of its bio-diversity”, he said.

(From an article by Guy Rogers, The Herald newspaper).