Ionian Dolphin Project Greece

Supporters

Work by Tethys in the eastern Ionian Sea was possible thanks to the commitment and dedication of a number of people. We are grateful to all past and present collaborators for contributing to field data collection, data analysis and/or project management. Special thanks go to Nicolas Entrup, Sigrid Lüber, Dimitrios Moutopoulos, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Chrisoula and Kostas Papalexi, Giorgos Paximadis, Emma Sharp and Nikos Stantzouris.

The Ionian Dolphin Project is being supported by UNEP’s Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA), the Earthwatch Institute, OceanCare and WDCS The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. In previous years, funding came from a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship and a Pew Collaborative Initiatives Fund granted to Giovanni Bearzi.

Financial support was also provided by the UNEP/CMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area (ACCOBAMS), Agip, and TUI Corporate Environmental Management. Equipment, discounts and/or logistic support were offered by FieldWorker, Milan Civic Aquarium and Hydrobiological Station, Nikon, OCC Yachting, Psion Teklogix, Thetis SpA, Tuborg and Venice Natural History Museum.

All photos, maps and graphs in this report © Tethys Research Institute. Animal drawings © Massimo Demma.

Collaborations and synergies

In the context of the work done by Tethys in Greece, contacts were established and various kinds of collaboration were developed with representatives of the institutes listed below.

Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS)

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

BlueWorld Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Croatia

Cetacean Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission

Chantecaille, international

Cultural Center Mytikas, Greece

Development Agency for South Epirus and Amvrakikos (ETANAM), Greece

EarthOcean, Australia

Earthwatch Institute, international

Fisheries Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Fishermen Cooperative, Paleros, Greece

Fishermen Cooperative, Preveza, Greece

Fishermen Cooperative, Vonitsa, Greece

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece

High School, Vonitsa, Greece

Higher Technological Education Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece

MedSharks, Italy

Medasset, Greece

Ministry of the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, Greece - Nature Management Section

Ministry of Agriculture, Greece - General Directorate of Development & Protection of Forests and Natural Environment, Directorate of Aesthetic Forests, Woodland and Hunting

MOm, The Hellenic Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal, Greece

Morigenos - Dolphin Research and Marine Conservation, Slovenia

Municipality of Paleros, Greece

Municipality of Mytikas and Kandila, Greece

Municipality of Vonitsa, Greece

Oceana Europe

OceanCare, Switzerland

Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute, Greece

Pew Institute for Ocean Science

Primary School Mytikas, Greece

Primary School, Vonitsa, Greece

Secondary School, Vonitsa and Katouna, Greece

Small-Scale Hellenic Fishermen Confederation, Greece

UNEP’s Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Aras (RAC-SPA)

University of Barcelona, Spain - GRUMM (Group of Study and Conservation of Marine Mammals)

University of Durham, U.K. - Department of Biological Sciences

University of Padua, Italy - Department of Experimental Veterinary Science

University of Patras, Greece

WDCS The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (international)

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Greece

Zoological Station ‘Anton Dohrn’, Naples, Italy