We had a chat with Dr Chiara G. Bertulli who works as Sightings Officer at Sea Watch in response to the news of 'Benny' the Beluga whale being in the Thames.
A video of a beluga whale visiting the River Thames off Coalhouse Fort has been reported this morning on Twitter by ecologist and ornithologist Dave Andrews. The scientists at Sea Watch Foundation are very pleased to realise how positively the general public responds to this encounter
I was recently lucky enough to see a Harbour porpoise up close. Unfortunately, this was a long dead, heavily decomposed corpse… but a porpoise nonetheless. The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) investigate all reported cases of stranded cetaceans. An individual can