9 May 2016 The Celtic Mist 25th Anniversary Sanctuary Tour launched this Sunday in Fenit, starting our 3 month round Ireland cruise. A blog of our adventures so far is coming soon, so keep an eye out on our website. You can track us as we go on our website here http://www.iwdg.ie/ as we may
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The collaboration between Inis/Fragrances of Ireland and IWDG is now in its 12th year. Inis are based in Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow at the foot of the lovely Sugarloaf mountain, www.fragrancesofireland.com have remarkably been IWDG's sole Corporate Core Funder during this period, and huge credit is due to them for maintaining financial support during the toughest
A quick look at the total number of strandings reported to IWDG for the first three months of 2016 show the highest figure ever yet recorded on the strandings database. Between 1 January and 31 March 2016, 91 strandings were recorded in Ireland, up from 68 in the same period in 2015 and 15 more
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On April 9th Ciaran Cronin reported a humpback whale off Bray Head, Valentia Island, Co. Kerry. This was an early Kerry humpback sighting, but wasn’t without precedent. In recent years humpbacks have been seen in April, but these tended to be isolated events, involving single animals observed once or twice. It is the consistency of
Report III April 14 2016 Successfully tagged five basking sharks off Kilkee, Co Clare on Wednesday with individually numbered coloured tags. Also obtained samples for genetic analysis. Check out youtbe video of tagging attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYFs6pPrGA and More footage of tagging and sampling basking sharks off Kilkee, Co Clare with the Irish Basking Shark Study Group,
IWDG recieved our 1st humpback whale report of the 2016 large whale season from Ciaran Cronin, of Wildeye on Saturday morning, April 9th from Valentia Island, Co. Kerry. This sighting was of an adult animal that surfaced among large no's of gannets and newly arrived manx shearwaters within 150 m of the cliffs at Bray
At present, Nimmo’s Pier, in the heart of Galway city, is alive with wildlife! A bottlenose dolphin, believed to be semi resident in the area, has been sighted frequently over the last few weeks. The dolphin has been observed just beyond the wall at the end of the pier, spending most of his/her time approximately
On Friday evening 25th March at 8:00pm on ITV, you’ll have an opportunity to see watch spectacular aerial footage of bubble-netting humpback whales, filmed by drone in the Dingle Bay area during Sept. 2015. This portion of the show was a collaboration with IWDG and the footage which is a first for the
Some of you may have had the pleasure of seeing the antics of the bottlenose dolphin, known as "Clet" during the summer of 2014, when between mid May through to October, the IWDG sighting scheme tracked his movements along Cork and Kerry and up the West coast as he moved north though Irish waters. There