Posts Tagged ‘dolphin intelligence’
MISSION STATEMENT OF DOLPHIN
Earthtrust is an international nonprofit organization which holds funds in trust for the earth, adhering to high standards of accountability and donor-direction of assets. It works in partnership with sophisticated donors such as foundations and disciplined individuals to change the world.Earthtrust preferentially takes on the “impossible missions” which the conventional wisdom says cannot be solved, and solves them. It does independent analyses of crisis situations and crafts novel legal, political, media, and high-tech solutions to leave the issue in a new stable state. It demonstrates these solutions and facilitates handing them off to mainstream groups and agencies. Read the rest of this entry »
Dolphin Cognition Research
Each year hundreds of thousands of dolphins die from driftnet and purse seine fishing, from being harpooned, from being shot as crab bait, and from pollution. Although it is already known that dolphins are large-brained, intelligent, social creatures, humans continue to slaughter these amazing mammals at an enormous rate.Don White, President of Earthtrust, has long seen the need to establish scientific evidence that would shed light on the issue of dolphin intelligence. Read the rest of this entry »