{"id":125279,"date":"2019-04-16T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=125279"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:17:05","slug":"monitor-whales-with-the-new-samana-whale-watcher-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/monitor-whales-with-the-new-samana-whale-watcher-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitor whales with the new Saman\u00e1 Whale Watcher app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The European Union and Germany\u2019s development cooperation agency, GIZ, assisted the Center for the Conservation and Eco-Development of Saman\u00e1 Bay (CEBSE) in the Dominican Republic with the creation of the Saman\u00e1 Whale Watcher App. CEBSE says the app seeks to promote sustainable observation of the humpback whales in the Bay of Saman\u00e1 and integrate the tourists in awareness-raising and creation of educated whale watchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app enables tourists to become investigators for a day, sharing their photographs with scientists and researchers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app was made possible due to contributions by the program Biodiversidad y Negocios of the European Union delegation in the Dominican Republic, under Syenia Paulino, division director of GIZ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The free app was launched on 12 April 2019, shortly after the end of the 2019 whale-watching season in Saman\u00e1 Bay. The whaling season in Saman\u00e1 starts 15 January and ends on 30 March every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app incorporates tourists and participants in whale-watching tours in Saman\u00e1 Bay in the scientific monitoring of the whales. It also provides access to information on the catalog of whales, guidelines for whale watching, and a list of the boats that are authorized to carry out whale watching trips. The app links to the GPS of smartphones to indicate the geographic location of each whale sighting, characteristics of the behavior of the whales, and makes it possible to share photographs of the whales in action with CEBSE (Centro para la Conservaci\u00f3n y Ecodesarrollo de la Bah\u00eda de Saman\u00e1 y su Entorno), the local conservation entity in charge of monitoring whales in Saman\u00e1 Bay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app will also make it possible to learn about species outside of the humpback whales that may be present in Saman\u00e1. Patricia Lamelas, longtime executive director of CEBSE, says the app resolves the need to provide quality information to visitors and allows the approach to conservation and research from a very social perspective. The application also helps more people collaborate in the conservation of these animals and support the work of our institutions “, explained Lamelas during the presentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This mobile application is available for Android and iOS devices and was developed within the framework of the project “Biodiversity and Business in Central America and the Dominican Republic: Contribution of the Tourism Sector for the Restoration and Protection of Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity in the Caribbean Sea,” of the European Union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The European Union and Germany\u2019s development cooperation agency, GIZ, assisted the Center for the Conservation and Eco-Development of Saman\u00e1 Bay (CEBSE) in the Dominican Republic with the creation of the Saman\u00e1 Whale Watcher App. CEBSE says the app seeks to promote sustainable observation of the humpback whales in the Bay of Saman\u00e1 and integrate the … <\/p>\n

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