Overview

• Associació Eucrante and the Dénia City Council kicked off the campaign on June 5, mobilizing about 200 regular and scientific volunteers through July 26.
• Volunteers have recorded 38 fin whale sightings this spring as the vanguard of the Ligurian Sea to Atlantic migration.
• A new team of 12 trained scientific volunteers with biology and marine science backgrounds will collect detailed behavioral and route data.
• Nocturnal turtle nest monitoring runs alongside whale watching after Dénia’s beaches logged a record six nests last summer.
• Observation posts at Torre del Gerro and patrols aboard Baleària and Mundo Marino vessels will map whale movements toward Gibraltar and beyond.