The Dolphin Watch project launched by the Trust in April 2009 focuses on one of the Swan Canning Riverpark’s most iconic species.
The Dolphin Watch project is a partnership between the Swan River Trust’s River Guardians program, Murdoch and Curtin Universities to find out more about the community of bottlenose dolphins in Perth waters, the Canning and Swan Riverpark.
In 2010 the Minister for Environment announced Dolphin Watch Day, an annual event to acknowledge the contribution public volunteers have made through river dolphin monitoring in the Swan Canning Riverpark to increase our knowledge and inform current research.
The Swan River Trust, together with Murdoch and Curtin universities developed Dolphin Watch as a collaborative social science research and education project last year. The program is provided through the Trust’s River Guardians program.
Dolphin Watch recognises the importance of dolphins as potential indicators of river health and aims to provide better understanding of dolphin ecology and their interactions with human activities, to better understand our iconic Riverpark.