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Fishers' involvement is crucial. Image: WDC/JTF

When porpoises and people overlap

By Nicola Hodgins | 28th February 2023
We're funding a project in Hong Kong that's working with fishing communities to help save...

Mindful conservation – why we need a new respect for nature

By Fabian Ritter | 31st January 2023
'We should look at whales and dolphins as the indigenous people of the seas -...
A dolphin called Arnie with a shell

Dolphins catch fish using giant shell tools

By Alison Wood | 3rd January 2023
In Shark Bay, Australia, two groups of dolphins have figured out how to use tools...
Common dolphins at surface

Did you know that dolphins have unique personalities?

By Alison Wood | 27th December 2022
We all have personalities, and between the work Christmas party and your family get-together, perhaps...
Leaping harbour porpoise

The power of harbour porpoise poo

By Vicki James | 20th December 2022
We know we need to save the whale to save the world. Now we are...
Holly. Image: Miray Campbell

Meet Holly, she’s an incredible orca leader

By Alison Wood | 13th December 2022
Let me tell you the story of an awe-inspiring orca with a fascinating family story...
Humpback whale. Image: Christopher Swann

A story about whales and humans

By Chris Vick | 6th December 2022
As well as working for WDC, I write books for young people. Stories; about the...
Risso's dolphin at surface

My lucky number – 13 years studying amazing Risso’s dolphins

By Nicola Hodgins | 29th November 2022
Everything we learn about the Risso's dolphins off the coast of Scotland amazes us and...
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Can we have some dolphins please?

By Charlie Phillips | 24th January 2018

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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