Natural History Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden

The Gothenburg Natural History Museum and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM) in collaboration with SAMBAH and Kolmården Djurpark exhibited a a frozen harbour porpoise for demonstration purposes. The animal had stranded on the west coast of Sweden and had been collected in order to determine the cause of death and test for environmental toxins. A harbour porpoise skull was also displayed, as well as a slide show of harbour porpoises with click sounds. Some short lectures about the species, its conservation status, the threats it faces, current research and conservation measures for harbour porpoises and their habitats were given during the five-hour event.