Let's make dolphins the symbol of the ocean

Dolphins are highly intelligent marine mammals and are part of the family of toothed whales that includes orcas and pilot whales.

They are found worldwide, mostly in shallow seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. A Dolphin’s color varies, but they are generally gray in color with darker backs than the rest of their bodies.

As climate change causes the seas and oceans to warm, dolphins are being seen more frequently in colder waters outside their historic ranges. Due to rapidly rising ocean temperatures, dolphins’ primary food sources are seeking deeper, cooler waters. Scientists are concerned that dolphins will have difficulty adapting as quickly as necessary to find new feeding grounds to sustain their populations. Some dolphins that live in areas where rivers and oceans meet, known as brackish waters, are also losing habitat as ocean levels rise due to global warming. Dolphins are under threat worldwide, mainly human-generated threats. Two of the biggest issues are entanglement in fishing gear and nets and pollution. Dolphins often pursue the same fish species that commercial fishing ships are hunting and may get accidentally caught in their nets. Aside from the harm dolphins suffer through overfishing, large commercial fishing operations use nets that trap dolphins along with the fish they target. Dolphins also may break off their fins or otherwise injure themselves in their desperate struggle to free themselves

Here are some things you can do to help make the dolphins' world safer and healthier:

1. Reduce - Reuse – Recycle - Rethink - Respond; bring your reusable grocery totes, If you must buy disposables.

2. Conserve water, waste not and fix leaks,

3. Use fewer harmful chemicals and pollutants, and dispose of them properly,

Save Dolphins!

Written by my fellow friend Aditi Vidhya Viswanathan and me