We were happy to celebrate the 29th Dolphin Day! This is the 10th year since the celebration of this traditional event was moved to July 1st. In the park behind the church of St. Antun Opat in Veli …
Read moreWe celebrated this year’s World Sea Turtle Day in the most beautiful way, by returning the recovered sea turtle Zlata in nature. Zlata is a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) that was found stranded on the rocks …
Read moreThis year, we celebrate the World Environment Day in a very special way, holding a two-day workshop on marine waste data collection, organized by the ECOSS project in cooperation with Ocean Conservancy, which resulted in the establishment of …
Read moreIn order to inform the general public about the work of our Sea Turtle Rescue Centre, we asked its manager mr.sc. Mateja Zekan and veterinarian Tina Belaj, dr.med.vet to give us an example about procedure during the reception …
Read moreDespite unfavorable weather conditions, on May 22nd, 2021., on the island of Lošinj, a coastal cleanup action was held in the bay of Artatore, while due to the strong wind, the seabed was cleaned a little further, on …
Read moreValbiska, a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), has successfully completed its recovery at our Sea Turtle Rescue Centre. After seven months of recovery from a deep wound on the neck, today it returned to the sea. Such …
Read moreThe President of the Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Jelena Basta, becomes the Croatian ambassador of the European Atlas of the Seas, an ocean literacy tool. With our core mission dedicated to marine environment protection …
Read moreWithin the activities of the Marine Turtle Rescue Center, we collect the data on dead sea turtles as well. Each dead individual is a source of data useful in monitoring of their presence and movement in the Adriatic …
Read moreValbiska, a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle that has been successfully recovering for the past four months from a deep wound caused by a skin incision due to entanglement in a net or litter, has not been lonely lately. …
Read moreSpatial information is of a crucial importance for the effective conservation management of sea turtle populations and identification of high-used habitats. Our project partners from University of Primorska have developed a new device that uses Snapshot GPS system …
Read moreTogether with the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, we collected data on the recreational boat noise source levels on the 22nd and 25th of October 2020 as part of the Soundscape project. This will be the first pilot …
Read moreOn Friday, 25th of September 2020, the Blue World Institute organized a workshop in Mali Lošinj entitled ‘Open Day for divers and fishermen’. The main reason for this event was the presentation of a prototype device for marine …
Read moreThe center of public interest in the Mediterranean and beyond is the currently unsuccessful attempt to rescue second sperm whale that has become entangled in a drift net near the island of Salina in the archipelago of the …
Read moreOn Wednesday, July 1st, we celebrated our traditional Dolphin Day, the 28th in a row! This time, in a somewhat more modest edition, due to the uncertain situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, we organized a series of activities …
Read moreThe World Sea Turtle Day – 16th of June, was celebrated at the Blue World Institute as a part of the activities of the LIFE Euroturtles project. Therefore, we organized interactive educational workshop on the excursion boat „Krško“ …
Read moreAs we welcomed June, we also returned to work from our office in Veli Lošinj and we opened LMEC after being closed for public for 2 and a half months. We have taken all the precaution measures, cleaned …
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