the Marine Mammals Sanctuary Bancos de La Plata and Navidad – Adventures with Whale Tales and Glitter

Humpback whales, Marine Biology, Spotlight, the Marine Mammals Sanctuary Bancos de La Plata and Navidad

Professor Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi

Professor Bonnelly, an older woman with light brown skin and salt-n-pepper hair. She wears a white blazer, red blouse, a strand of pearls, and glasses. She is smiling at her desk, books and papers before her. Photographer unkown.

The mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean Professor Idelisa Bonnelly might be one of the most important women in Humpback whale research. Between getting her own marine biology degrees in the United States, because her home country of the…

Kate Pennington
May 16, 2025