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Cetacean related portuguese
sites:
Forum
Oceanos (portuguese
and english)- discussion
Forum about the oceanic environment with some information about cetaceans.
It's possible to put questions to Azorean marine researchers;
National
Rehabilitation and Stranding Network (ICN);
Associações
Científicas:
ECS
- European Cetacean Society
(english) - Scientific
association, congregating european marine mammal researchers;
Sociedade
Espanhola de Cetaceos (spanish) - Spanish Cetacean
Society;
SMM - Society for Marine Mammalogy
(english) - Scientific
association, congregating worldwide marine mammal researchers;
EAAM - European Association for Aquatic
Mammals (english) - Association for the maintenance
of captive animals;
North Atlantic Marine Mammal
Comission (english) - Inter-governamental body, for
the cooperation in the conservation, management and study of North Atlantic
marine mammals;
Research Institutions:
Centre
de Recherche sur les Mammiferes Marins (french; english) - Marine
mammal research cetner located at La Rochelle, France;
University
of Victoria Whale Research Lab (english) - Research
Unit at Victoria Un. (Canada);
Tethys Research Institute (italian;
english) - Italian
Marine Research Institute, which has several projets on
cetaceans;
Centro Interdisciplinare di Bioacustica
e Ricerche Ambientali (english) - Bio-acoustics research
center, developing several research projects about cetaceans;
ALNITAK
(spanish; english) - Research organization working in the
western Mediterranean;
The Whitehead Lab
(english) - Cetacean research lab. located in the Dalhousie
Un.;
Marine
Mammal Research Program
(english) - Site of the Marine Mammal Research Program
at A&M University, Galveston, Texas;
Sea
Mammal Research Unit
(english) - Located at the St. Andrews Un., this is one
of the most important marine mammal research institution in Europe;
Nick Tregenza
(english) - This UK based researcher has a very
good page with information on his work, some of the problems affecting
marine mammals as incidental captures in fisheries and collisions with
fast ferries;
Non-governamental
Organizations (NGOs):
International
Whaling Commission
(english) - The International Whaling Commission (IWC)
regulates the whaling activity of the signatory parties;
World Council of
Whalers (english) - Other
institution congregating whales worldwide;
Whaling
Library (english) - Pro-whaling site, that explains
the arguments in favor of this activity;
World Wildlife Fund (english; french;
spanish) - The main goal of the WWF is to stop, and eventually
revert, the planet's environmental degradation;
Greenpeace (english) - International association devoted
to the conservation of the world natural resources;
IFAW (english) - The
IFAW works for the improvement of animal wellfare, worldwide, trough the
reduction of commercial exploitation, habitat protection and help to endangered
species;
Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society
(english) - Organization dedicated to the cetacean
conservation and wellfare;
General
Marine Mammal Information:
Whale
Net (english; spanish; parcially in portuguese) - An
educational site, complete and extremelly well conceived; worth of visiting;
@Phocoena.org (english) - Scientific
and educational information, both for general and specialized public;
Whale
Watching:
Whale
Guide (english) -
Comprehensive list of worldwide whale watching companies;
Whale
Watcher Expert System
(english) - This little program aids in the identification
of cetaceans sighted in the sea; it's fallible, but fun...
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