About our scientific research

Since 1998 our research team has recorded and documented every sighting of whales and dolphins. Besides collecting information about the status of the different populations of cetaceans we want to improve our knowledge on the spot and finally emphasize our demands for protection.

By means of ecological tourism we try to finance our research. We employ a marine biologist and have students of biology, marine and environmental studies working as volonteers. Our scientific work is supervised by professor David Senn, who besides being in the foundation's board is also a member of the scientific committee of the 'International Whaling Commission' (IWC).

See the following pages for more information:

• The Strait of Gibraltar
• Insight in our Research Projects
• Why Regulations

Publications by firmm

•  Finn whales of Gibraltar (HighRes) by Jörn Selling
•  Long-finned pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar (HighRes) by Michael Casanova, Matthias Tobler

Last revised: 20 Feb 2008 04:41 PM

URL: http://www.firmm.org/en/forschung.html