The Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) is now accepting entries in its 2023 Photo Calendar Competition, to be judged by multi-award-winning international wildlife photographer, Rita Kluge.
The 12 winning pictures will be published in ORRCA’s much anticipated 2024 Calendar which will be available for purchase from September.
Photographers of all abilities are invited to enter photos, with the profits from all calendar sales going directly into funding the ever-growing number of rescues of Australia’s whales, dolphins, seals and dugongs that ORRCA responds to across Australia each year.
ORRCA is the only volunteer group licensed in NSW to rescue, rehabilitate and release whales, dolphins, seals, and dugongs.
Its network of trained rescuers on the Central Coast are well-equipped and ready to spring into action at any given time and location.
The organisation relies on the generosity of communities and businesses to sustain its conservation efforts by supporting and promoting fundraising events.
With the busiest ever migration in full swing, more than 60,000 Humpback whales are expected to make their way north in Western Australia and along the eastern coastline to subtropical breeding grounds in Queensland over the coming months.
This year, an unprecedented number of entanglements have been reported via ORRCA’s 24/7 rescue hotline.
Soon the whales will return south, with many mums and calves negotiating a complex obstacle course of hazards as they return to the feeding grounds of Antarctica.
Entries for the photo competition close on July 9.
To enter go to https://www.orrca.org.au/new-page
Meanwhile, ORRCA has reminded Coasties to report all injured, stranded, or entangled marine mammals to the ORRCA Rescue Hotline on 9415 3333.
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ORRCA