The Cape Lookout Studies Program and the North Carolina Maritime Museum have a license plate program with a great conservation message.

By purchasing the special “Protect Wild Dolphin” NC Maritime Museum special license plate you will be supporting the museum’s research, conservation and education programs. Demonstrating your interest in protecting bottlenose dolphins and their habitat and making your car look better!

The coolest drivers Protect Wild Dolphins

The NCMM license plate proceeds help protect and increase our understanding of bottlenose dolphins that frequent the North Carolina coast.

Revenues from the plate sales will benefit the Cape Lookout Studies Program through the Friends of the Museum to support the education, conservation and research programs of the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort.

Keith Rittmaster with the right plate

Protect Wild Dolphins License Plate, better than an OBX sticker

Sale of the dolphin plates will benefit both this project, and environmental studies and educational field trips that are part of the Maritime Museum’s Cape Lookout Studies Program. For each $30 plate purchased, the Friends of the Maritime Museum support group will receive $20. To personalize a dolphin plate requires an additional $20.

Breakdown of Protect Wild Dolphins” license plate sales by quarter. It’s time to make your mark on the graph!

Ready for your “Protect Wild Dolphins” license plate?

Go to your local license plate agency

Contact the DMV at (919) 861-3575
Visit the NC DMV website special plates page and follow these steps:

• Click “Order a Special Plate”
• Click the letter “M” for Maritime Museum
• Click on the Protect Wild Dolphins License Plate image
• Click “Purchase this Plate” and follow on-screen instructions!
• Go to the beach and when you see dolphin fins, they’re saying “Thanks, bud!”

Listed below are individuals/groups whose generosity helped sustain the Cape Lookout Studies Program in 2009 by providing printer ink, photo paper, office supplies, Honda 115hp 4-stroke outboard motor, boat batteries, tools, propane, hardware, cleaning supplies, lumber, water heater, hand soap, food, notebooks, XM Radio subscription, web hosting fees, web site maintenance, CD player, vice, drill, drill press, hand tools, boat fuel, boat use, $8,028 in cash donations/grants, and approximately 2,000 hours of volunteer time.  THANK YOU!!  A sincere thanks also goes out to everyone who has an NC “Protect Wild Dolphins special license plates which raised for Friends of the Museum a total of $13,360 in 2009.   The dolphins thank you too.

Listed below are individuals/groups whose generosity helped sustain the Cape Lookout Studies Program in 2007 by providing a boat trailer, a boat t-top, 3 pickup trucks, torque wrench, office supplies, hand soap, note books, fire extinguishers, propane, flatbed trailer, lumber, photo paper, hand tools, 2 SCUBA tanks, SCUBA regulator, waterproof Pelican case, surf wax, shovels, latex gloves, face masks, 2 coolers, 2 five gallon gas tanks, XM Radio subscription, web hosting fees, copier paper, plates, forks, power drill, skil saw, 2 cast nets, 2 tool boxes, 1^st aid supplies, 2 boat windshields, coffee cups, web site maintenance, database maintenance, books, note cards, lots of assorted hardware, boat fuel, boat use, food, $7,635 in cash donations/grants, and approximately 2,000 hours of volunteer time:

Click here to visit our Thank You page – dedicated to the supporters, volunteers, backers and collaborators of the Cape Lookout Studies Program.