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Wildlife
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Research
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Events & Education
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Volunteering
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Boat Trips
Opening Times: Manned by volunteers, our visitor centre is free to enter and is open seven days a week, 9am-5pm from Easter until the end of October.
For the summer holidays our visitor centre is open 7 days a week from 9am-6pm.
Telephone: 01545 560224
Boat trip enquiries (available by phone only): 01545 560032
E-mail: Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre Team
What’s Happening?
CBMWC Events
| Date/Time | Event |
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| 23/09/2017 10:00 am - 4:00 pm |
Become a Marine Biologist (ages 14-25)
Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre, New Quay |
| 01/10/2017 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Wildlife Watch Group - Whale of a Time
Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre, New Quay |
| 20/10/2017 - 23/10/2017 9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Spermwatch CoCoast Survey
Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre, New Quay |
Latest News from CBMWC
Good News for Living Seas/Newyddion Da i Foroedd Byw
Male Corkwing Wrasse English Cymraeg North Wales Wildlife Trust and Wildlife Trust South & West Wales have joined forces to bring you our Living Seas Wales Project. The project is due to launch in Summer…
Name the Seal
To celebrate The Wildlife Trust’s #NationalMarineWeek, which started Saturday 29th July and finishes on Saturday 13th August 2017, The Wildlife Trust’s Living Sea team at the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre (CBMWC) are giving you…
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About Us
Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre is a great place to visit when you are in New Quay; learn how to spot marine wildlife such as dolphin, porpoise and Atlantic grey seals from our brilliant team of volunteers.
In 2016 we celebrated our 20th year of working in marine conservation and held a special event in New Quay with our World Record Attempt!
BBC star Iolo Williams joined us and 335 volunteers to create the world’s largest human superpod in the shape of a dolphin! #Superpod.
Our staff team are dedicated and work with the local community to raise awareness of our fantastic marine wildlife.
We operate a popular visitor centre and work with Dolphin Survey Boat Trips to collect data on the bottlenose dolphins of Cardigan Bay and other marine mammals that are regularly spotted, such as harbour porpoise and Atlantic grey seals and more unusual species such as basking sharks and sunfish.
As well as conducting our own research, we can support university students with their own research.
You can hire out our Discovery Room – another great way of supporting our work. You can read more about Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife visitor centre.
As a charity we rely on donations, find out how you can support our work
Please Support Us
Our work is reliant on donations, funding and our brilliant team of volunteers.
You can support us in a number of ways, your donation will help our important research and work. If you would like to fundraise for us then please contact the CBMWC team. You can read more about Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife visitor centre.
Adopt a Dolphin
Buy a Boat Trip Voucher
Please Donate
Where We Are
CBMWC is located on the slipway just off Glanmor Terrace (the main road down into New Quay) next to the RNLI lifeboat station, so if in doubt, head towards the sea and from there, look out for our sign with the CBMWC logo at the top of our slipway directing you to the centre. Here you can also book onto a boat trip with our colleagues at Dolphin Survey Boat Trips.
How to get here:
Car:
New Quay is off the A487 (the main coast road between Cardigan in the south and Aberystwyth in the north) on the A486 (from Synod Inn) or the B4342 (from Llanarth).
Train:
The nearest train station is Aberystwyth
The following website has good local travel information and can help in planning routes:
Traveline Cymru – Journey Planning Wales
Traveline Cymru is the public transport information service in Wales
Parking:
There are no car park facilities at CBMWC but there are several public car parks in New Quay which are signposted from the roads leading into town and they cost approximately £4/day.