Every year WDC produces or commissions a number of papers and reports on issues concerning whales and dolphins. Below are a selection of our publications in pdf format.
Key UK Publications
WDC Science Department Publications
Some of the reports listed in these two pdfs can be found below. Where copyright restrictions preclude this please contact us for further information on a report's availability.
Annual Review
WDCS Annual Review 2011/12 - Celebrating what you have helped us achieve in the past year. (2012)
WDCS audited accounts and financial review for 2011 (2012)
Captivity
Dolphinaria - A review of the keeping of whales and
dolphins in captivity in the European Union and EC Directive 1999/22, relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos. (2011)
Dolphin Assisted Therapy: Can you put your faith in DAT? (2007)
Driven by Demand (2006)
Biting the Hand that Feeds - the case against petting pools (2003)
Captive Cetaceans: A
Handbook for Campaigners
(1998)
Free Corky Campaign Factsheet (2006)
Captive Orcas - ‘Dying to Entertain You’ (2001)
Climate Change
Offshore wind farms and marine mammals: Impacts and methodologies for assessing impacts (2008)
An update on the extent of marine renewable energy developments in the Northeast Atlantic (2008)
Whales in Hot Water (2007)
Marine wind farms and cetaceans (2003)
Ocean acidification (2006)
Fisheries
The Price of Fish - A review of cetacean bycatch in fisheries in the north-east Atlantic (2011)
Shrouded by the sea …
The animal welfare implications of cetacean bycatch in fisheries – a summary document (2008) (see below for full report)
The Animal Welfare Implications of
Cetacean Deaths in Fisheries (2008) (5.8mb)
The Net Effect? -
A review of cetacean bycatch in pelagic trawls
and other fisheries in the north-east Atlantic (2004)
Habitat Degredation
Riding the waves – lessons from
campaigning on oil and gas (published in ECOS Newsletter, British Association of Nature Conservationists, 2008)
Marine Debris
Marine Debris and Cetaceans (2011)
Noise Pollution
Oceans of Noise (2004)
Science
Outer Moray Firth Cetacean Research 2008 (2009)
The Conservation of British Cetaceans (2007)
Into the Brains of Whales (2007)
Current State of Knowledge of
Cetacean Threats, Diversity, and
Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region (2007)
Report of a cetacean survey in the
Western Approaches of the
English Channel,
February-March 2005 (2005)
Species
South American River Dolphin Action Plan (2010) (10.5mb)
Strandings
A review of live strandings of cetaceans: Implications for their veterinary care, rescue and rehabilitation in the UK (1996)
Whale Watching
A review of whale watch guidelines and regulations around the world (2008)
The State of Whale Watching in Latin America (2008)
Estado
del Avistamiento
de Cetáceos
en América Latina (2008)
État des lieux
du whale watching
en Amérique latine (2008)
European Whale Watching Guide (2003)
Russia Whale Watching Guide (2006)
Whaling
Reinventing the Whale (2010)
Sink or Swim : The Economics of Whaling Today (2009)
Japanese small type whaling (2009)
IWC Intercessional Meeting briefing paper (March 2009)
Whaling: defying international
commitments to animal welfare? (2008)
Iceland, whaling and ecosystem-based fishery management (2008)
Animal welfare in Norway:
an inconsistent truth (2007)
The RMS – A question of confidence? (2005)
Troubled Waters - A review of the welfare implications of modern whaling activities (2004)
Hunted - Dead or Still Alive: A report on the cruelty of whaling (2003)
Rapid Genotyping techniques for identification of species and stock identity in fresh, frozen, cooked and canned products (1999)