ASCOBANS - Education and Outreach Special

Man with a big heart
(Simmonds inside a blue whale heart c/o Gothenburg
Natural History Museum)

ASCOBANS is the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans in the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas. It has recently held its 21st Advisory Committee meeting in Gothenburg in Sweden. Here are some images from this meeting where a particularly striking theme was the variety of innovative education and outreach work being conducted across the region - from leaflets to moving imagery. If you have time take a look at the links!

A view of the ASCOBANS Advisory Committee - Fabian Ritter of WDC in the foreground

Fabian compliments Alison Wood (also of WDC) on her huge computer

Peter Evans of the Sea Watch Foundation and
Genevieve Desportes the North Sea Coordinator

Fabian Ritter described a project with a small group of students from the Design University in Dessau who produced some remarkable short films as part of the on the International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise (IDBHP) (18 May 2014). You can see them HERE - this link is to 'The Last Memory' and others are listed to the left.

Ritter again.

Alison introduces the WDC Aberdeen dolphin event

WDCS dolphin event in Aberdeen

WDC held a public exhibition in Aberdeen this summer with 50 large individually-decorated dolphins.

To see how they were received in Aberdeen, click HERE

The exhibition is now over but it had its own hiome page and gallery HERE

Here the CMS/ASCOBANS Secretariat reports on the education and outreach activities of
the agreement including its new marine debris leaflets (three gold stars for that)! 

New debris leaflet modelled by Mrs Wood

Debris leaflet

Balloon over Gothenburg