Welcome to WiSe
The UK's national training scheme for best practice around marine and coastal wildlife to minimise disturbance
Explore our expert-led certified course tailored for individuals, businesses, and organisations, to gain the knowledge and skills needed to act responsibly around marine and coastal wildlife.
Learn and Protect
The Wildlife Safe (WiSe) Scheme is the UK’s national training scheme for wildlife-safe marine and coastal operations. We provide evidence-based best practice training and certification for wildlife tour operators, guides and professionals working around marine and coastal wildlife.
The waters around the UK are home to a fantastic variety of marine wildlife, whether visible from the shore or from water craft. However, wild animals and their environment are vulnerable to disturbance if not encountered in a manner that respects their wild nature. Disturbance can negatively impact survival rates of species by increasing the risk of displacement, ability to rest, feed or mate and potentially cause life threatening injuries.
Thousands of operators and marine professionals have now attended one or more of our WiSe courses, designed to ensure a solid understanding of marine wildlife species. We focus on ways we can all help to minimise any unintentional disturbance from land, sea and air.
WiSe Codes of Conduct
WiSe has developed Codes of Conduct in line with governments' Marine Wildlife Codes to promote safe and sustainable marine and coastal activity. All WiSe trained individuals have agreed to abide by our WiSe best practice codes for the wildlife and environments they encounter.
WHAT OUR LEARNERS SAY ABOUT US
Lisa (Peel Ports)
"Your passion for each of the subjects really shone through and this made the course so much more interesting - so thank you!"
Rob Constantine
"Thoroughly enjoyed the course - plenty of useful information from your speakers plus anecdotes from some of the other attendees - well done!"
