Monday, 30 October 2017

Record year for Cornwall’s Marine Wildlife

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Mon, 30/10/2017 (All day)
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Over 2,500 records, representing tens of thousands of animals, were sent into Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Seaquest Southwest Project in 2016 – a record breaking year for the initiative as described in their recently released 2016 report. From our Cornish bottlenose dolphins to the rare arctic bowhead whale, this result continues to support Cornwall’s top status as one of the best places to see coastal and marine wildlife in the UK.

Seaquest Southwest is a citizen science marine recording project. For over 20 years the Trust has been recording the distribution and abundance of our most charismatic marine wildlife; including dolphins, sharks, whales, porpoise, seals, sunfish and much more. In 2016, the public sent in 2,640 reports of wildlife spotted around the county, ranging from iconic humpback whales to the smallest cetacean on earth – the harbour porpoise.

Katie Bellman, volunteer Seaquest Southwest Coordinator for 2017 says,

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