Dolphin and beam trawler

Bottlenose dolphin following a beam trawler.

(Photo by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Beam trawler net

One of the four nets being towed simultaneously by a beam trawler.

(Photos by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Breach

(Photos by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Children booklet giveaway

Distributing our children booklets* after the lecture.

* http://www.dolphinbiology.org/_media/dolphinfriends/

(Photos by G. Bearzi)

Dolphin lecture in Pordenone

Silvia lecturing to children at the Don Bosco school in Pordenone, Italy.

(Photos by G. Bearzi)

Bottlenose dolphins and beam trawlers

Bottlenose dolphins foraging in the wake of beam trawlers. A recent adaptation? Last year we never observed dolphins behind this kind of trawlers. This year, we already made a few observations.

(Photos by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

With dolphins at 6AM

Valentina spotted bottlenose dolphins right at the beginning of our boat survey. They were busy feeding in very shallow waters.

(Photos by G. Bearzi, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Bottlenose dolphins and trawlers

(Photos by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Dead loggerhead sea turtle

Yesterday we found a dead loggerhead sea turtle, floating adrift.

(Photo by G. Bearzi, Northern Adriatic Sea)

First mother-calf pair

First mother-calf pair of the year. A juvenile individual swims nearby.

(Photos by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

After the sighting

Valentina, Silvia and Marco after a bottlenose dolphin sighting.

(Photo by G. Bearzi, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Technicalities

Silvia, Valentina and Marco discussing the technicalities of dolphin photo-identification at our field station in Loreo, Italy.

(Photos by G. Bearzi)

Fridays for Future Pordenone

Giovanni speaks at the Fridays For Future event in Pordenone, Italy.

(Photos by S. Bonizzoni)

Silvia and Valentina at sea

Silvia with Valentina Rossi during yesterdays' sighting of bottlenose dolphins.

(Photo G. Bearzi, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Giovanni Bearzi @FridaysForFuture

Giovanni Bearzi will be among the speakers at the upcoming Fridays For Future event in Pordenone, Italy (24 May 2019).

For more information:
http://www.instagram.com/fridaysforfuture_pn/

No Species Is An Island

The Planet We Want - 2

The team of Fridays for Future Pordenone* interviewed by Elisabetta Rossi during yesterday's event The Planet We Want / We Don't Want, organised by Associazione Naturalistica Cordenonese together with DBC.

* Left to right: Arianna De Nadai, Marisole Basso Moro, Elisabetta Testa, Gianluca Travasci.

The Planet We Want - 1

Giovanni making his presentation "A sea of change: what we have lost and what we want to save" during yesterday's event The Planet We Want / We Don't Want organised by Associazione Naturalistica Cordenonese together with DBC.

Project NORA

Yesterday in Porto Tolle, Italy, learning about the results of Project NORA: maritime spatial planning within the fisheries department of Chioggia, region of Veneto.

(Photos by G. Bearzi)

The Planet We Want / Do Not Want

Giovanni Bearzi will make a presentation titled "The changing sea: what we have lost and what we want to save".

Dolphin off the Po river delta

A well-marked bottlenose dolphin surfaces off the Po river delta. The inactive power station of Porto Tolle is visible in the background.

(Photo by S. Bonizzoni, Northern Adriatic Sea)

Il Pianeta Che Vogliamo / Non Vogliamo

Upcoming event in Cordenons (PN), Italy: "The Planet We Want / We Do Not Want".

Giovanni Bearzi will make a presentation titled "The changing sea: what we have lost and what we want to save".

The 5x2m poster features a one of our photos: a bottlenose dolphin in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece.

Just another day

Just another day of dolphin research off Veneto, Italy.

(Photos of people by G. Bearzi; photo of dolphins by M. Bregoli)