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.