Dolphin swimming in the wild

Since 2000 the Jamaica Environment Trust has had an active marine mammal education and advocacy programme. JET has helped fight against captive dolphin facilities and whaling across the Caribbean. JET has also helped coordinate a number of marine mammal strandings and with the help of the Caribbean Veterinary Medicine Association and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hopes to establish a marine mammal stranding network in Jamaica. In addition to this work JET also hopes to begin a whale and dolphin survey around the island of Jamaica in January 2010. This work will be the first of its kind in Jamaica and will be implemented with the help of the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St. Andrews and the Centre for Marine Sciences at the University of the West Indies.

Photo: Ricardo Antunes

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• Facts on Whales
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