Wildlife Extra
It's an impressive sight watching a twenty metre long fin whale break the ocean surface. Fin whales are rare and elusive animals but one of the best places to observe them is here in the Pelagos Sanctuary. It is a marine protected area in the western Mediterranean that stretches between Corsica, the south of mainland France and northern Italy.
Collaborating with environmental organisation Greenpeace, a group of Italian researchers is carrying out a survey of the whale and dolphin populations in the region. Simone Panigada, a whale scientist from the Tethys Institute in Milan, is keen to find out how the cetaceans are doing.
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