The manual includes 75 pages of information on actions to be taken when injured and dead cetaceans are found. The head of the Dolphin Rescue Center Tatyana Belei said that the manual was created as part of the educational project of the Black Sea Dolphins Center, which is implemented with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund.
Tatyana Belei noted that trainings to assist dolphins in Sochi began in 2018. Since July 2019, thanks to the Presidential Grants Fund, classes were held in various cities of the Black Sea coast, as well as in Moscow. More than 600 people took parts in the events. Thus, the need arose for creating a methodological guide. The trainings are impossible to conduct very often, sometimes it’s hard for people participating in them to remember all the information, new applications come from those who want to become volunteers.
Since April 2018, the specialists of the Delpha Center recorded 390 cases of death of dolphins on the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory. The hot season for the death of cetaceans occurs in the spring, when more active fishing is carried out, immunity is weakened, water is polluted. At the same time, the head of Delphi noted that most eyewitnesses most often do not know what to do if a dolphin is found dead or wounded.
The manual is available in electronic form for everyone. You can download it on the website of the Delphi Cetacean Rescue Center. Five hundred copies of the printed version are planned to be distributed among the center’s volunteers and organizations wishing to participate in solving the problems of preserving the Black Sea dolphins.
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