Life on small islands provides a microcosm for understanding how we can live in balance with our environment and each other with local livelihoods, food security. and natural resources sustained through a balance of enhancement, use and preservation.
Human capacity to see and
understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea,
has trailed our growing ability to harm it. Our very existence
depends upon healthy oceans, while dolphins and other cetaceans represent
a key piece to this huge ecosystem.
The Wild Dolphin Foundation is a grassroots
NPO, whose mission is protecting wild dolphins
globally through research, advocacy, public education and conservation and to create culturally-sustainable change in
human behaviors which continue to threaten the well-being
of dolphins and their host communities.
ancestors lived deeply interconnected to each other, the land,
and the sea. Dolphin (Nai`a) were considered by some to be
one form of the spiritual manifestation of the god, Kanaloa.