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Habitat Protection for Cetaceans around the World 199 Notes and rationale For more information • A nature reserve since 1988, this site is partly a European Site of • Contact: Stephan Lutter, Community Importance (SCI) and is proposed for protection as an WWF North-East Atlantic OSPAR Convention MPA. Programme; • Rationale is that it is a seamount with shallow reefs and important email: lutter@wwfneap.org; feeding grounds, spawning and nursery areas for many fish species. web: www.ngo.grida.no/ • Management and protection regime still has to be put in place. wwfneap/Publication/ briefings/FormigasBank.pdf • Rui Prieto; email: rui.prieto@wapicode.com • Proposed as a marine national park, Iroise Marine National Park has See also Table 5.6 for additional French MPAs • Liret et al, 2001 been considered for a regional nature park, a natural reserve, a • Contact: Celine Liret, candidate biosphere reserve and an EC Birds Directive site, with the Laboratoire d’Étude des main goal of preserving biodiversity. A marine national park would Mammifères Marins limit human disturbance and pressures, though present levels are Ocèanopolis, BP 411, considered very low. 29275 Brest cedex, France; • In France, the role of a marine national park is to manage the marine email: environment to conserve its biodiversity. To create a marine national celine.liret@oceanopolis.com park, a special decree is needed that defines the park in terms of • Iroise Marine National Park; species and habitats. Also, there must be a management plan with email: philippe.le-niliot@ a biological and habitat inventory. Human activities must be bretagne.environnement. integrated into the plan if they form part of the conservation objective. The application of the management plan must include enforcement (through marine patrols and implementing educational programmes). • Studies by Liret et al (2001) have charted dolphin habitat use and home ranges over more than four years. gouv.fr See also Table 5.9 for additional German MPAs. • On 15 Oct 1999, the parliament of Schleswig-Holstein state, • Hammond et al, 1995; Germany, voted to create a small cetacean sanctuary within the IUCN, 1997; Prochnow, existing National Park Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein. This park 2001; Schmidt and Hussel, is part of the Wadden Sea Nature Reserve – an international reserve 1994, 1995; Sonntag et al, administered jointly by Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark 1999 (see Wadden Sea Nature Reserve above). • Contact: WDCS • Since 1999, the sanctuary has been nominated as an SAC and, Deutschland; in 2001, scientists and WWF proposed for protection the adjacent email: info.de@wdcs.org; waters as they serve as a key porpoise corridor (see Sylter Außenriff web: www.wdcs-de.org SAC and other proposed SACs below). • Stephan Lutter, WWF • More than 4500 harbor porpoises reside in the area; up to 15 per North-East Atlantic cent of the sightings are calves; this is the first porpoise calving Programme; ground found in the North Sea. email: lutter@wwfneap.org; • A variety of bottom fauna and a highly productive food web are web: www.ngo.grida.no/ based on the nutrient-rich effluents of the river Elbe which mix with wwfneap/Projects/ the coastal current. MPAmap.htm
200 Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Table 5.8 continued Name of MPA or sanctuary, Cetacean and other notable species location and size (20) Sylter Außenriff SAC, • harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (high percentage proposed of mother–calf groups); other cetaceans present • North Sea waters west of Sylt and Amrum islands • 2052 mi2 (5317 km2 ) (21) Borkum-Riffgrund SAC, • year-round: harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena; other proposed cetaceans may be present • west of the German Bight, North Sea, German waters • 230 mi 2 (595 km 2 ) IRELAND Eire (A) Irish Whale and Dolphin • 24 cetacean species seen in Irish waters, 11 regularly Sanctuary (Berrow and Rogan, 1997; Berrow et al, 2002): minke • coastal waters of Ireland to 200 nm whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata; fin whale, Balaenoptera (371 km) physalus; bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus; striped • 146,800 mi 2 (380,300 km 2 ) dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba; short-beaked common See Case Study 7. dolphin, Delphinus delphis; white-beaked dolphin, Lagenorhynchus albirostris; Atlantic white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus acutus; Risso’s dolphin, Grampus griseus; long-finned pilot whale, Globicephala melas; orca, Orcinus orca; harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (22) Shannon River Estuary SAC • bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (year-round); • Shannon River Estuary, counties Clare, sporadic: short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary, west delphis; minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata coast of Ireland • also: seals, otters, herons, large colonies of guillemots • 247.7 mi 2 (641.8 km 2 ) and razorbills, ravens, choughs and peregrines See Case Study 6.
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CONTENTS List of Figures vii List o
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LIST OF FIGURES I.1 The exclusive e
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First I must thank
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Acknowledgements xiii Charitable Tr
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List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
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PROLOGUE The publication of this ha
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Prologue xix stakeholders - local c
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INTRODUCTION There are three main d
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Introduction 3 or non-geographicall
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Introduction 5 and dolphins. At tha
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Introduction 7 This world map shows
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BOX I.3 THE PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH
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Introduction 11 do an important job
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Introduction 13 and Birkun, 2002; R
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Ocean Sanctuaries, Marine Reserves
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2 WHY SPOTLIGHT WHALES, DOLPHINS AN
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Why Spotlight Whales, Dolphins and
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Table 2.3 Baleen whales. World dist
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Table 2.4 Toothed whales: sperm and
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Table 2.6 Toothed whales: ocean dol
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Table 2.7 Toothed whales: porpoises
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Why Spotlight Whales, Dolphins and
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4 STRATEGIES FOR PROTECTING CETACEA
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Strategies for Protecting Cetaceans
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5 HABITAT PROTECTION FOR CETACEANS
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REFERENCES Agardy, T (1997) Marine
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References 455 Bearzi, G (1995) The
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References 457 11th Biennial Confer
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References 459 Vol II, The Great Ba
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References 461 Forcada, J (1995) Ab
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References 463 Hoyt, E (1978) Frien
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References 465 CH Peterson, RS Sten
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References 467 Lauriano, G (1997b)
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References 469 Mercier, F and C Mon
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References 471 Notarbartolo di Scia
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References 473 Prideaux, M (2003a)
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References 475 Sanino, GP and JL Y
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References 477 Tregenza, NJC, SD Be
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Abaco National Park 220-1 Abrolhos
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Calayan Island Protected Area 336-7
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European Union Habitats and Species
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