Thousands of educational DAPG pamphlets are distributed each year through schools and libraries and also to fishermen and merchant vessels to prevent dumping of plastics at sea.
[1] DAPG has also campaigned against high seas pelagic drift-netting[2] which kills cetacean caught in the drift nets, and succeeded in phasing out this fishing technique in the southern Indian and Atlantic oceans.
DAPG hit headlines in May 2009 when a decision by a pod of whales to strand themselves on the beach at Kommetjie made news on CNN and BBC.
DAPG had an important function in making South Africa the first country in the world to protect the great white shark in 1991.
[5] Key persons involved in making the protection possible were Nan Rice (DAPG), Leonard Compagno (University of Cape Town) and Theo Ferreira (former white shark fisherman).