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| Last updated on June 9, 2008 |
The Wild Dolphin Foundation is creating change in human behaviors threatening the well-being of dolphin (and our) environments.
What affects the land, affects the ocean, toxins in the environment are a shared risk for both humans and dolphins.
What is man-created and impacts dolphins, humans, plants, and other life forms, may also travel by wind, water or other methods thousands of miles before impacting the earth.
We are interdependent with marine mammals and are responsible for using our awareness, compassion and intelligence to ensure their survival and the conservation of their habitat.
A safe home for dolphins is a safe place for humans to visit.
We work with integrity and in collaboration with volunteers, backers, independent researchers and scientists, behaviorists, children and schools, the general public, tour operators, recreational boaters and fisherpeople.
We possess a deep commitment to being an excellent model of non-profit management, conscious of cost effectiveness, program effectiveness, internal accountability for each program, and to use the material support dollars we are given responsibly and well.
Description:
We are a grassroots, registered charity protecting and restoring the natural habitats of dolphins through research, advocacy, public education and conservation.
We use photo identifications obtained from the field to study the population parameters of the coastal dolphins and video and journals to log and study behavior. Field studies are a valuable tool that can be applied to worldwide conservation efforts.
For a multitude of reasons, conservation for a federally protected marine mammal species is not as cut and dry as it would seem. Given this, our film crew is documenting the intact resources of the Wai`anae Coast to include its culture and people as well as it's natural history.
We are working to WDF integrate the local environment into curricula at schools throughout the area working collaboratively on developing and implementing projects that will have enormous benefits for the children and their communities. We hope to reach as many kids as we can so that sustainability and stewardship of the coastline's marine life becomes 'second nature' for these students and their parents.
The spinner dolphin's daytime habitat is located in sandy areas surrounded by coral reefs. WDF heads the Leeward Oahu Reef Check, a community-based monitoring protocol designed to measure the health of coral reefs (and thus their surrounding habitat) on a global scale. REEF Survey monitors the fish sharing the dolphins habitat. What effects the reef and its inhabitants will also affect the dolphins.
History:
The Wild Dolphin Foundation,founded in 2001, grew out of the need to conserve the habitats of oceanic dolphins, growing from the recognition of the unregulated increase of dolphin-interaction based tourism and the adverse effects of land activities on the ocean environment, and to reconnect humans to nature.
Contact person: Tori Cullins, Executive Director, (email)
Office fax number: (808) 668-4075
Address:
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87-1286 Farrington Hwy.
Waianae, HI 96792
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Web Site: http://wilddolphin.org
Directions:
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Our home office is located at Maili Point on the Waianae Coast, our vessel is in the Waianae Boat Harbor
Nearest Bus Stop: Country C, or Country Express |
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