A BRIDPORT marine charity is going ahead with an 'exciting' survey next week after a successful Crowdfunding campaign.
MARINELife has raised £6,000 towards the cost of carrying out a survey of the coastline of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall - which will take place on Tuesday (18).
The charity will now aim to complete the largest survey of its kind of protected bottlenose dolphins.
Emma Webb, trustee at MARINELife, said: "The survey is definitely going ahead on August 18.
"Hopefully it is going to be a nice day for it and we are very exciting about it all. We did reach our crowdfunding target which we are very pleased about, but we are still looking to raise as much as we can get in order to get as much out of the survey as we can.
The survey will also look to record the number of Balearic shearwaters around the south west coast.
Just a few thousand breeding pairs of these birds remain in the world and each summer 1,000 or more birds migrate from the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean up the west coast of France, crossing the channel before working their way around the south west coast. They rely on the rich feeding in our coastal waters at a time when they are moulting and the south west offers them a critically important habitat at this stage of their annual migration.
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