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)