'i sea, i care' COMMUNITIES care enough about our bays' marine treasures to change how we live in the suburbs.
With your assistance we will help the community from Mt Eliza, Mornington and Mt Martha to become champion protectors of our bay; raising perceptions and ownership, and reducing pollution flowing from our homes and businesses through drains and creeks into the bay.
Your support is crucial to enable research and education we can't currently fund and to engage with the 60,000 residents of this region to reduce the pollution we flush into the bay.
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Do You Swim?
Our homes, businesses, and streets connect with the dolphins’ home through the many drains and creeks that flow into the bay. It’s why we get toxic algal blooms following summer storms flushing nutrients into the bay. It caused Mothers Beach to be closed to swimming in February 2013 after a storm flushed our roads, drains, and creeks into the bay.
Business or property owner?
The bay's water quality affects everything; swimming, aquaculture, fishing, tourism, recreation, and amenity. The viability of Bayside businesses and property values are dependent on a healthy bay.
Care about our marine treasures?
Most people are spell-bound when they first see the colour and diversity of life in our own marine backyard. Past decades have shown improvement in the overall health of our bays. But there is no room for complacency. The combined effects of climate change and our population projected to grow from 5 to 10 million by 2050, make it crucial that we build community stewardship to reduce pollution reaching our coast.
Why Dolphin Research Institute?
‘i sea, i care’ COMMUNITIES builds on our award-winning ‘i sea, i care’ School Ambassador Program. After working with 5,500 young environmental leaders during 18 years, ‘i sea, i care’ has proven to achieve lasting social impact.
‘i sea, i care’ COMMUNITIES asks the community to invest in the future of their bay through the Dolphin Research Institute. To support crucial research and education we can’t currently fund, and to build community stewardship to reduce what we flush into the bay.
Success will see measurable changes in community perceptions and coastal pollution. The Institute is committed to partnering with the community for the long-haul to achieve sustainable impacts – just as we have over our 28-year history.
our marine treasures are too precious to lose - we are the main threat...
