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Dénia Launches Volunteer Campaign to Track Spring Fin Whale Migration

Scientific volunteers are already documenting spring migration patterns off Dénia’s coast ahead of the campaign’s peak in late July.

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El voluntariado de cetáceos, un éxito de nuevo este año, cuenta por primera vez con un equipo con especialización científica

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.