Meet our dolphin
Everybody loves seeing cetaceans - whales, dolphins and porpoises - and it really makes everyones' day if we're lucky enough to see one whilst out on tour. The inter-island ferries provide good wildlife watching platforms, and you can also sometimes spot cetaceans from the boats across the Pentland Firth.
As part of our Ecotourism policy we support sustainable tourism and respect and value Orkney's wildlife - both terrestrial and marine.
We've decided to go further and support the work of the Sea Watch Foundation, a registered charity whose mission statement is:
Photo © and by kind permission of the Sea Watch Foundation
‘Working with the public, the Sea Watch Foundation is a national charity, dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales, dolphins & porpoises in British & Irish waters. Each year, cetaceans face depletion in their numbers and even possible local extinction due to continuing threats to their habitat such as capture and drowning in fishing gear, sound disturbance, marine pollution, over-fishing and climate change. Sea Watch, through its continuous programme of research and monitoring, provides invaluable information on changes to the status and distribution of cetacean populations and the condition of their habitats. This is used to raise awareness of any issues and prompt environmental change to help conserve & protect these mysterious creatures’.
We think these are laudable aims, so we've decided to support their work by sponsoring a dolphin through their 'adopt a dolphin' scheme.
We're also of course doing our bit to fight climate change, one of the factors that may be influencing our marine populations, by going carbon neutral and offsetting all our business carbon emissions
Our dolphin's name is 'Flint' - a suitable name for a dolphin adopted by archaeologists - currently resident in Cardigan Bay, Wales.
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