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The Marine Life Society of South Australia online library

July 28, 2025 Steve Reynolds

We have an online library through Librarika Each of the items in our library are given ‘Categories’ for topics from ‘Animal behaviour’ to ‘Wildlife’. Most items have some relevance to…

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Update on the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Senate Inquiry

July 24, 2023 Steve Reynolds

This month, I attended the Port Adelaide Environment Forum to hear a presentation about the results of the Senate Inquiry into the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary (Select Committee of the Legislative…

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Follow-up Discussions About Marineland

July 1, 2023 Steve Reynolds

Since writing about Marineland’s dolphins in 2020, I have been interviewed by both Channel 7 Adelaide News’ “Flashback” and Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide. My interview by Sonya Feldhoff…

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How you can identify the most popular whale species off our coast

April 16, 2023 Steve Reynolds

I recently stumbled upon this guide to the identification of whale species (that may be seen off of our coast) from one of our 2005 newsletters: – How you can…

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WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE ‘FAB FIVE’?

July 26, 2022 Steve Reynolds

The Fab Five can be found in South Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Parks. They are five of SA’s ‘Fabulous’ charismatic species – the Australian sea lion, White-bellied sea eagle, Giant Australian…

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THE FIVE THAT THRIVE IN OUR MARINE PARKS

June 5, 2022 Steve Reynolds

Forget the Fab Four, the Fab Five are here! The Fab Five are 5 icons from Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Parks. These 5 icons are Southern right whales, Giant Australian cuttlefish,…

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Habitat loss, habitat degradation and the Port River dolphins

December 1, 2021 David Muirhead

I see similarities between the recent and seemingly quite rapidly escalating decline in Port River dolphin numbers and the continuing extinction trend in the bushland birds of Adelaide and the…

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Review Needed For The Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary Act

November 27, 2021 Steve Reynolds

On 15th November, I attended a community forum held by the Australian Marine Wildlife Research & Rescue Organisation Inc. (AMWRRO) to discuss recent (& ongoing) dolphin deaths in the Port…

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More on the Tailwalking Port River Bottlenose Dolphins

May 26, 2020 Steve Reynolds

More on the Tailwalking Port River Bottlenose Dolphins by Steve Reynolds After reading my recent article about Adelaide’s Marineland Dolphins, ‎Dan Monceaux made the following comment: – “According to Mike…

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List of dolphin watching, conservation and advocacy groups on Facebook in South Australia

November 13, 2019 Dan Monceaux

Among South Australia’s most beloved marine species are the bottlenosed dolphins, Tursiops sp. Dolphins which forage, feed and rear their young in inshore environments like Tursiops are vulnerable to various…