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World Cetacean Alliance

With 13 million tourists annually choosing to spend their holidays whale watching, World Cetacean Alliance — the largest network of whale and dolphin watching experts — see whale watching as a first step in engaging and influencing huge numbers of people to take responsibility for protecting the seas.

By bringing together a mix of commercial tour operators (tourist whale and dolphin spotting boats), NGOs, scientists and educators WCA works to improve the lives of cetaceans through a combination of community focused training and education programmes.

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Supporting World Cetacean Alliance

sankalpa funded a full time staff member for two years, to roll out WCA's Responsible Whale Watchingprogramme alongside NGOs, fishing and whale watching communities in East Africa and South America.

As an organisation we were trying and failing to grow. All our funding was coming from project related fees and so we were unable to stand on our own two feet and we kept deviating from our mission. Opportunities for charities in the early years just don’t exist and so we were becoming exhausted by constantly trying to fight fires as opposed to focusing on growth. Then we found sankalpa — they work quickly and their processes are simple, a joy!

Dylan Walker, World Cetacean Alliance