Dear Dolphin Lover

INVITATION TO BECOME A MEMBER OF A WORLD WIDE FAMILY OF DOLPHIN DEVOTEES

International Dolphin Watch (IDW) has recently been completely reorganised to embrace some of the many changes that have taken place in recent years. The springboard for IDW’s move into an exciting new future is the introduction of a Monthly E-mail Newsletter. The heart of the newly updated IDW is it’s website.

These have created opportunities for those with a love of dolphins to tell their stories and to publicise events they are organising (or taking part in) to a global audience.

The first IDW E-mail Newsletter went out on the 1st August 2006. If you wish to contribute, please contact the Editor, Jackie Connell on jackie.connell@ntlworld.com

Here are some of the topics Jackie included in the first newsletter:

• Worldwide:
• Conservation News
• Forthcoming Events
• Personality of the Month
• Society of the Month
• Book of the Month
• Bargain of the Month
• CD of the Month
• Dilo Corner – children’s news
• Friends News
• News from Mexico
• Operation Sunshine News
• Synchronisity Happenings
• Letters from our Guest Book

If you would like to be included in the UP AND COMING EVENTS or MY DOLPHIN STORY section on the website, then E-mail our Webmaster Terry Connell on terry.connell@ntlworld.com .

We are also creating space on the Website and in the Newsletter for limited commercial advertising.

Contributions will be included at the discretion of the Webmaster and the Editor in consultation with the Hon. Secretary and the Hon. Director o f IDW.

These opportunities are open to all.

However, priority will be given to those who choose to support IDW, directly or indirectly, in its numerous activities. You can find out more about what IDW does by opening our new Dolphin Friend Flier.

If you wish to enrol as a Friend of IDW (for which we request a minimum donation of £10, about US$18) you can do so by printing and completing the flyer, or by making a donation through the Dolphin Shop. This will entitle you to 12 issues of our monthly E-mail Newsletter, plus access to space on the website and in the newsletter.

I thank you for taking the time to read this and hope that we can welcome you to our global family of Friends of IDW who care about dolphins and want to ensure that the seas are kept safe for the dolphins, and for us humans, to enjoy in harmony.

Wishing you happy dolphin days.

Dr Horace Dobbs
Honorary Director International Dolphin Watch
horace@drdobbs.karoo.co.uk