English - Caribbean Environment Programme

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSA large number of people and organisations provided papers, data, advice and comments to thisproject and we thank them all for their invaluable assistance. This includes:Philip Hammond, SMRU and the EU LIFE Nature programme, via projects LIFE92-2/UK/027(SCANS) and LIFE04NATGB000245 (SCANS-II), for use of the SCANS data; Ben Halpern andcolleagues (UC Santa Barbara) for the use of their work modelling human impacts on the marineenvironment; Mark Simmonds, Sonja Eisfeld and WDCS; Kevin Robinson, Mike Tetley andCetacean Research and Rescue Unit (CRRU); the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT),Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre (CBMWC), Ruth Williams (Cornwall Wildlife Trust), Rob Deaville(Institute of Zoology), Nick Tregenza, Colin MacLeod, Claire Embling, Lissa Goodwin,Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), Maria Iverson, Ben Wilson, Jonas Teilman, Marijke de Boer,Ana Cañadas, Helen Meacher, Cliff Garside, Alan Wells and David Janiger. Special thanks toPeter Evans for providing a large number of hard-to-obtain papers and reports for use by this project.The BBC Wildlife Fund has provided invaluable support to fieldwork conducted by WDCS, researchwhich has fed into this project.Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) provided support and detailed comment for the sections coveringScottish Territorial Waters; we are grateful to Katie Gillham and Fiona Manson.Funding for the production of the report came partly through WDCS’s Critical Habitat/MPAProgramme supported by Donna Balkan Litowitz, for which we are extremely grateful. Thanks toSarah Bryan and Jo Hastie for copy-editing and www.designsolutions.me.uk for layout and design.Finally, particular thanks must go to Rob Williams for his advice and many words of wisdom.4