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Dolphin in Brazil helping with fishing illustration

Dolphins and fishermen working together

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Gray whale (eschrichtius robustus) Gray whale in Ojo de liebre lagoon Baja California.

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Dolphins with keepers in the new Windsor Safari Park. Image: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo

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When porpoises and people overlap

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Whale evolution cover

How did whales end up living in the ocean?

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Fishers chatting

Scottish fishers working with us to reduce risks to whales

Small changes to fishing gear could make a big difference to whales around Scotland, and...

Mindful conservation – why we need a new respect for nature

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tins of whale meat

How Japan’s whaling industry is trying to convince people to eat whales

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Can we have some dolphins please?

It has been unusually quiet for dolphin sightings around the Inner Moray Firth over the festive holiday period and I was hoping that by this stage in January that I would have something to tell you and maybe even a photo or two to show but no luck so far I’m afraid. There have been very brief sightings of dorsal fins out near Fort George by one of our WDC Shorewatch volunteers and dolphins have been seen up in the Dornoch Firth and also east of where I am near Burghead (the photo below is from last summer, it’s of a dolphin with the Burghead Centre in the background) and along nearer Spey Bay where our Scottish Dolphin Centre is located. The dolphins that are being seen are possibly hunting for sea-trout so it might not be too long before I see some of the local dolphins around this area near Inverness and with a bit of luck one or two of the dolphins that you can adopt with WDC. Watch this space as they say…

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