Ecovolunteer & Marine Mammals Behaviour and Bioacoustic Lab.
Solovetski Islands, White Sea.

www.ecovolunteer.org

Instead of organizing boat trips for visitors, this organisation invites people to participate as an ecovolunteer in a research project on beluga whales. You should spend at least two weeks at the station. The observation is done from land.
languages: English, Russian

Kon-Tiki Tours
Solovetskij Islands, White Sea.
Kontiki@kontiki.fi
www.kontiki.fi

Whales are sometimes approached too close and in the wrong way. Sometimes the time spent with the animals exceed 15 min. A naturalist is occasionally not on the boat.
Opportunities for land-based whale watching in the area are many, plans have been developed but financing is a problem.
It has been reported that every year the operator visits a reproductive gathering of Belugas, although boat-based whale watching should not at all occur at this time.
Languages: Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian, (German)