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National Whale and Dolphin Watch: the great success of a citizen science project casting light on status and distribution of cetaceans in British waters

Mar 03, 2020

by Claudia Afeltra

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boat encounters, boat watches, education and outreach, landwatch, landwatching, National Whale & Dolphin Watch, National Whale and Dolphin Watch, NWDW, NWDW2019, Outreach, recommended boat operators, regional coordinators, Volunteer Observers, volunteering, volunteers

The Sea Watch Foundation’s 2019 National Whale and Dolphin Watch event (July 27th – August 4th) revealed striking biodiversity with an impressive thirteen species of cetaceans seen around the British Isles, a number which has only been recorded twice before in the history of the event

Blue whale taken in Icelandic whale fishery

Jul 13, 2018

by Claudia Afeltra

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blue whale, DNA sampling, fin whale, hunting, hybrid, Iceland, sighting, whaling

On Saturday 7th July, the Hvalur hf. Whaling company, having taken 21 fin whales already this season in Iceland, landed a whale that several of us have identified as a blue whale, a species which has been globally protected since 1966. It was brought in to the whaling station at Hvalf

Fin whale visits waters of the River Great Ouse!

Jun 28, 2018

by Claudia Afeltra

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east anglia, fin whale, regional coordinator, rescue, river great ouse, sighting

Photographs of a fin whale visiting the River Great Ouse in the centre of Kings Lynn has been reported this morning on social media. The scientists at Sea Watch Foundation are very pleased to realise how positively the general public responds to these encounters and how much they enjo

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National Whale and Dolphin Watch: the great success of a citizen science project casting light on status and distribution of cetaceans in British waters

Blue whale taken in Icelandic whale fishery

Fin whale visits waters of the River Great Ouse!

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