East African Whale Shark Trust Volunteers

28/12/2021

The countdown to the 2022 whale shark expeditions has begun! Join us for a wildlife experience of a lifetime!
Starting 15th of January, daily tours until 15th of March.
Snorkel with the BIGGEST fish in the world, and dolphins too! @ world famous Diani Beach, Kenya.

06/04/2021

We’ve just received a report from Steve Capone who went out fishing this morning and spotted a 2.5 meter baby whale shark off Tiwi!
Next year we’ll probably continue throughout March!

12/03/2021

06/03/2021

2 whale sharks, two manta rays and a pod of dolphins today. 💙

06/03/2021

The Wildbook for Whale Sharks uses an algorithm first developed by NASA to identify individual whale sharks by the patterns on their skin. This provides scientists with critical information about the sharks' population hotspots and migration routes.

03/03/2021

28/02/2021

25/02/2021

Another awesome start to the day!

04/02/2021

28/01/2021

31/12/2019

Dear Friends,

First of all I would like to thank everyone who voted for me, I am deeply humbled.

We are now actually in second place to win Terra Icognita’s “Blogger of the Year” award, all thanks to you!That’s 2847 votes!

Our Nigerian counterpart is leading with 3300 votes. The deadline is 00:00 Gmt tonight so we might still have a chance to pull it off and win this award..

For all my friends who haven’t voted, please read the story, and if you like it, lend me your vote by clicking the link below and just add your email, done!

Let’s put Kenya on the map as the world’s best whale shark destination and add one to our BIG 5! PLEASE SHARE 🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏🏻

https://www.terra-incognita.travel/2019/whale-shark-adventures

I wish you all a splendid and prosperous 2020

Volker Bassen

“Always follow your passion and success shall be yours” I shall never forget the first day I arrived on Diani Beach, I thought I was the luckiest man on the planet! I remember walking on the (now world famous) beach that evening, feeling the crispy snow-white sand between my toes, a starlit sky ...

13/05/2019

Mvurya expressed fears that the dredging will hamper the ecosystem of Diani beach

20/12/2017

This is going to be one of the various research projects we shall undertake during 2018 whale shark expeditions: collect samples of the water where the sharks are encountered.

A new monitoring technique could help assess and protect highly migratory species like this whale shark.

With just over a few plastic bottles of seawater, scientists can analyze for environmental DNA, which can be used to measure the presence, the diversity, and potentially the relative abundance of sharks in any given area. http://pew.org/2isX7HH

📷: Andre Seale

11/02/2017

Another beautiful Saturday in paradise spent cleaning up the beach with 50 of the kids from Diani Montessori Academy! A total of 32 bags of garbage collected 👍🏻

05/08/2016

Good morning and happy Friday people! Are the sunrises as beautiful where you are, as the ones in Diani Beach? Come join us!

22/07/2016

We want to wish you all a great weekend with this throwback to when the volunteers got to swim with a pod of dolphins for 15 minutes🐬 Happy Friday people!

15/07/2016

As part of our volunteer program, we support a local orphanage with 63 children. Before Christmas, we were able to get rid of their bedbug problem which they had been struggling with for over eight(!!!) months! Have a look at how we did it and come join us for our next projects! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpl8IN-aBvk

Here a short clip of us (the East African Whale Shark Trust) treating a bedbug infested orphanage in Kenya. Many thank's to all our volunteers and donors!

09/07/2016

The whale shark has now been reclassified on the IUCN Red List from "vulnerable" to "endangered". Check out this short docu that Volker Bassen put together some years back; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSwSIlMYQSY

This award winning short documentary is all about whale sharks. Papa Shillingi means whale shark in Kiswahili. Here what the experts say. "A wonderful film" ...

08/07/2016

Have a look at this quick presentation of our volunteer program to see what you can be a part of; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7gHrAHM-pk

Volunteer travel & EAWST (East African Whale Shark Trust) have put together a volunteer program that focuses on marine conservation in combination with sever...

02/07/2016

Do you want to become diver? You can combine your volunteering holiday with scuba diving classes and become a certified PADI scuba diver right here, from our own dive school! Experience the diverse marine wildlife around the coral reefs as well as joining our coral reef restoration program✌🏻️

02/07/2016

Our program include other projects besides the marine conservation, such as our jiggers project. Jiggers is a nasty type of flea that can lay eggs inside your feet if you walk barefoot - children are especially vulnerable to this due to their thin skin. We have seen multiple cases of feet so bad that the kids can't even walk to school, let alone focus during the lessons with all the itching and the pain.

We treat the children to get rid of the jiggers in their feet, but more importantly, we collect and donate shoes as a more permanent solution!

02/07/2016

On the day before Christmas last year, we were able to completely eradict bedbugs from an orphanage. They had been suffering from the problem for almost eight months(!) and many of the children were sleeping on the hard concrete floor because of it. Thanks to our amazing volunteers and donations from friends and family all over the world, we could give the kids a bedbug free Christmas and all new mattresses for a good night sleep!

02/07/2016

Diani Beach - the place you'd rather be!