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The Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation (www.blue-world.org) runs several scientific, educational and conservation projects from the islands of Lošinj and Vis, including the Adriatic Dolphin Project. The Marine Education Centre at Veli Lošinj (opened in 2003) was the first marine education centre on the eastern Adriatic coast, and the Cres-Lošinj Marine Protected Area was the first such area for dolphins in the entire Mediterranean. They also run an ‘adopt a dolphin’ programme.

Plants

Croatia has over 8800 recorded plant species and some 4500 recorded species of fungi (the actual number in both cases is likely to be significantly higher), making it one of the richest areas of plant life in Europe in terms of species in relation to land area. The number of species on the Adriatic islands is particularly high (for example, there are 810 species of plant on the small island of Lastovo alone, between 700 and 800 on the Kornati islands, and around 1300 on the island of Cres), and the islands also have one of the highest proportions of endemic species in the country.