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Dolphin Care UK

Dolphin Care UK

Look at the photographs below. To the left you can see a Common dolphin and her Calf swimming in the open sea. This is how we should all view these beautiful creatures. However, all too often, we see images like the one to the right. Dolphins around our coast are being killed at an alarming rate, increasingly due to human negligence. It is this organisation and website's mission to help stop the needless killing of these beautiful creatures.

common and calf

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Dead dolphin

Stop the killing

My name is Chris Lowes, and I am a qualified Sub Aqua diver from Hull in East Yorkshire. I love the sea and all that lives in it; it was on a visit to Devon that I first saw a dead dolphin. It was a horrible sight and I was informed by some local people that it had been killed after being caught in a fishing boat's nets.

Dolphins all around our coast are being killed at an alarming rate, and it is this organisation and website's mission to help stop the needless killing of these beautiful creatures. But we need your help, to help stop the deaths of Hundreds of dolphins around our coasts.

We aim to achieve better conservation of dolphins in the seas around the UK by involving the public in the monitoring of populations and the threats they face, and by the regular production of material to educate and inform the general public and to lobby for better environmental protection on their behalf.

Twenty-eight species of cetaceans have been recorded around Britain. This amounts to more than one quarter of the UK mammal fauna. These cetaceans include: the Bottlenose; the Common Dolphin; Risso Dolphin; Atlantic White Sided ; White Beaked Dolphin; Striped Dolphin; Orca; Harbour Porpoise. All these mammals are social,intelligent,curious and brave, and they live in family groups known as pods.

Keeping a check on the cetacean population not only leads to effective protection for these fascinating animals whose interests have been largely neglected until now, but can also provide a warning of potential problems in the marine environment and allow remedial action to be taken. Therefore the knowledge to be gained from the work of this web site represents a good understanding of these animals and their habitats, and the environment they live in.

This site is designed to inform you about Dolphin Care UK: its aims, its projects and its work. There is also a lot of information about cetaceans in UK waters, and how you can do your part to help.

Your help will not only add to the well being of our dolphin populations, but will help to conserve them for future generations to see them in their own environment.