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Help us defend and protect nature
As an ethical Whale watching operator we feel strongly the need to raise awareness of conservation threats to Whales and Dolphins and also a responsibility to help fund conservation efforts around the world. This is an opportunity to help support our efforts.
Currently, we face the world's sixth global extinction event - Over ONE THIRD of all species will become EXTINCT in the next 40 years - and WE are the cause.
The Yangtze River Dolphin was only a few weeks ago officially declared as funtionally extinct and many more are critically endangered BUT there are good people out there who are trying to protect specific populations and we can and should help them.
Freebird Sailing is collborating with the Atlantic Whale Foundation whose volunteers are collating a global database on habitat destruction and highlighting species under threat and conservation groups who are fighting for them. below are a number of projects from the database which we are particularly interested in supporting.
If all our valued customers donate 50 cents, collectively tthey can make a real difference to the projects listed.
In collaboration with :
The Atlantic Whale Foundation
The Atlantic Whale Foundation is a British registered charity. It was founded to continue the work of Spanish environmental agency, Proyecto Ambiental Tenerife and works primarily towards helping to make Tenerife´s whale watching industry a global example of best practice. Activities revolve around education, conservation and research initiatives. The charity is volunteer led.
The Brazilian Humpback Whale Project
The humpback Whale Project is based at Caravelas, Bahia State. It monitors tourism activities and supports enforcement to ensure the necessary peace to the whales in their breeding activities.
The OMACHA Foundation
The OMACHA Foundation has been carrying out investigative and conservation activites since 1987 in the Amazon, Putumayo, Caquetá and Apaporis rivers and tributaries. They are working to conserve the Amazon river dolphin, through their research and consultation of local communities and fishermen.
SLWCP - Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society
Identifying threats in Dugong habitat patches in the west of the island, to help protect this IUCN reslisted 'Vulnerable' species
Coastal Rehabilitation
We have collaborated with this internationally respected organisation to conduct baseline research into the whales and dolphins of Sri Lanka both to insure effective conservation strategies are implemented and also to facilitate the harnessing of eco-tourism opportunities to the benefit of local communities impacted by the tsunami.