Marine Mammal Stranding Responders Manual

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Citizen Science/ OBSERVERS APP HOTLINE: +353 89 4625374. What to do if you find a stranded marine mammal? - Keep a safe distance (100 meters) from a marine mammals (seal, dolphin, whale, porpoise). - Keep dogs on a lead and away from live and dead stranded marine mammals to reduce the risk of zoonotic disease transmission. - For Dead Strandings; Log a report via the Observers App and upload images. - For Live Strandings & Entanglements; Call our stranding HOTLINE!

HOTLINE +353 89 4625374. ORCA Ireland’s First Responders will be in touch with you to find out details and assess the situation, please have your GPS location and images/videos to send. (Note: please send your images to welfare.orcaireland@gmail.com

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