The Marine Strandings Network is a flagship project of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, and has been recording and monitoring dead marine wildlife strandings in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly for over 25 years. We work in partnership with the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Progamme (DEFRA Funded) and University of Exeter to lead on marine strandings work for Cornwall. 

Cornwall’s dolphins and porpoises urgently need your help. Shockingly, 2017 saw the worst marine strandings for 15 years along the Cornish coastline. We need to stop this happening.

Cornwall is among the best places in the UK to see dolphins and porpoises, and is home to one of the few resident pods of bottlenose dolphins left off the British Isles.

Cornwall has a thriving network of local marine conservation volunteer groups who promote and protect the marine environment in their local patch. Together this network is a powerful voice for our marine environment.

Your donation to the Wildlife Emergency Fund will help reverse the decline which is happening all around us. By supporting vital conservation work on land, you will help struggling species which are currently clinging on for survival. Each day, Cornwall Wildlife Trust staff and volunteers are on the ground working to create a Cornwall where nature thrives. The Wildlife Emergency Fund makes core terrestrial projects possible so that we can look to the future with greater hope for nature.