Cornwall Wildlife Trust - Marine Strandings Network

TheMarine Strandings Networkis a flag-ship 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.We train and support a team of over 150 volunteers who, man the dedicated Strandings Hotline, record all reported strandings of marine organisms on Cornwall's coastline. The army of MSN Volunteers record and photograph all stranded dolphins, whales and porpoises (collectively known as cetaceans) as well as seals, basking sharks and turtles, and facilitate post mortem examinations of suidtable animals to determin causes of death. This gives us an understanding of the threats marine wildlife are facing, so we can campaign for changes to manage and mitaigate these threats.