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sight of our shores.
How you can help
There is urgent need to continue to improve
upon and expand the sightings network, to fill
in gaps in coverage, and identify conservation
problems. Everyone who visits the sea is
urged to help by participating, ALL records
being welcomed. The more individual records
we have and the fuller the coverage around our
shores, the more we can identify conservation
threats that they face. If you see porpoises
or dolphins very regularly, please do not take
them for granted. Logging of every one of
those observations would be extremely valuable.
Guides, Forms and Other Publications
To aid recording of sightings, an illustrated
field identification guide has been produced
(price 75p), and standardised recording forms
have been developed. There is also available
a report of a cruise carried out along the
western seaboard of Britain and Ireland in
summer 1980 with B/W illustrations of many of
the species likely to be encountered, and maps
of where they are to be found. The cost is
£1. Please make cheques payable to Cetacean
Group, and either allow for the cost of
postage, or better still, include an SAE (size
9" x 6.5" or A5, for the guide; size 12.75" x
9" or A4 for the cruise report).
Please address all correspondence to
Dr. P. G. H. Evans, Secretary, Cetacean Group,
c/o EGI Zoology Department, South Parks Road,
Oxford, 0X1 3PS. Telephone 0865 247448.