What if your next holiday helped protect whales?
Sarah talks with Maddalena Jahoda, biologist and science communicator at the Tethys Research Institute, which has been studying whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean for 40 years with the help of around 7,500 citizen scientists.
Maddalena shares how research holidays began as a way to fund the very first surveys, what participants actually do on six-day trips in the Pelagos Sanctuary and Greece's Ionian Sea, and how their data helped create a marine protected area across Italy, France and Monaco.
She also talks about returning sperm whales, scarred fin whales, the threat of ship strikes, why the Mediterranean is a natural laboratory for climate change, and why AI will never replace the connection citizen science builds between people and the sea.
More Information
https://whalesanddolphins.tethys.org/
https://www.facebook.com/IonianDolphinProject/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064499420279
https://www.facebook.com/baleneedelfini
https://www.youtube.com/user/TETHYSResInst
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