Dolphin Action and Protection Group

Dolphin Action and Protection Group is an NGO in South Africa fighting for the protection and conservation of dolphins and whales (cetaceans). The group was founded in 1977. DAPG has since expanded its role and activities and has conducted many national education and fundraising. DAPG thousands of educational brochures are distributed each year in schools and libraries and also for fishing and merchant vessels to prevent the dumping of plastics at sea .

DAPG also fought against the deep-sea fishing, pelagic drift-net, which kills whales caught in nets, and managed to eliminate this method of fishing in the southern Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. DAPG has been working with Marine and Coastal Management in the formation of a South African Whale disentanglement Unit.