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Double Your Impact for Marine Animal Rescue & Response

By Melissa Walker | 02/28/2023
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By Jen Kelly | 02/07/2023
To the WDC Community, I want to thank you so much for your support of...
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By Colleen Weiler | 01/26/2023
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The Unlikely Adventure of Shoebert, a Young Grey Seal Who Visited an Industrial Park Pond

By Sarah McCormack | 01/11/2023
Credit: Seacoast Science Center In mid-September, our stranding partners in northern Massachusetts were inundated with...
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By Vicki James | 12/20/2022
We know we need to save the whale to save the world. Now we are...
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Whale and Dolphin Conservation: Change Through Policy.

By Melissa Walker | 12/16/2022
WDC focuses on education, research, conservation projects, and policy work to create a sustainable future...
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Clear WDC’s Amazon Wishlist for Giving Tuesday

By Michelle Collins | 11/22/2022
UPDATE: We are thrilled to report that everything was donated off of our Amazon Wishlist...
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Speaking truth to power – my week giving whales a voice

By Katrin Matthes | 11/01/2022
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting is where governments come together to make decisions about whaling...
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Scoopy..That Was SO Funny !

By Charlie Phillips | 05/01/2012

Hi Everyone,

I was round at Chanonry on Sunday and despite being a lovely, sunny day it was bitterly cold with a biting northerly wind. What made it eventually worthwhile (the dolphins took ages to arrive), apart from seeing Rainbow and about six others was Scoopy playing with a big stem of holdfast seaweed. He would balance it on his blowhole while swimming at the surface and then let it wash along his back, and then he did it again, and again…fascinating to see this huge dolphin taking “time out” to physically play with something.

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I’m out filming with Timeline Films early in the morning tomorrow so fingers crossed we see some dolphins !

Best Wishes,

Charlie.

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