The Cetaceans Research Centre operates in the whole Mediterranean Sea and in particular in the Tyrrhenian part called Cetaceans Sanctuary. It carries out studies about wild dolphins and whales.

The main sea activities are the cetaceans and marine species study and protection , in collaboration with public and private bodies. Today the Centre is the most powerful and effective instrument for the cetaceans knowledge and protection in Italy about the sea real efficacy, data availability, boats of property, magazines and specific publishing.

The Cetaceans Research Centre is operative in the sea 12 months a year and it is the C.E.B. project founder (Cetaceans European Data Bank).

This is the widest project that has ever been realised with scientific principles in Europe . It consists in fotoidentifying all the cetaceans and realizing an “identity card” of every single individual with detailed information about it, about the habitat in which it lives, the migratory phenomenon, its social habits and specific studies both about the behaviour and about the biology.

The C.E.B. project is based on a seas grid system divided in specific areas and subareas and on a rigid scientific protocol of data collection, processing and management. This characteristics make it the most innovative, reliable and sole project of this kind in the Mediterranean . The C.E.B. project is working from two years and take part in it professional researchers and university students, working in the sea on board of the Centre boats all the year.

The Centre activities spread to the prestigious Cetaceans Research Centre Publisher, it's the first and sole editor in Italy with specific competences; Marina Magazine, a two-monthly magazine with high printing and wide success dedicated to the sea sensitization; the documentaries realization and at last to initiatives carry out every year, in collaboration with private sponsors, directed to large public.

All the Centre activities have the priority and real objective to secure the protection of dolphins and whales that live in the Italian seas and in the Mediterranean . All the activities are oriented exclusively toward the free animals, with the aim of protecting them using non invasive studying methods. If you need some data about the real efficacy of the Cetaceans Research Centre, curiosities and fast information visit this page.