Concern about the effects of maritime vessel collisions with marine animals is increasing
worldwide. To date, most scientific publications on this topic have focused on the collisions …

No global synthesis of the status of baleen whales has been published since the 2008 IUCN
Red List assessments. Many populations remain at low numbers from historical commercial …

Collisions with vessels are a serious threat to a number of endangered large whale species,
the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) in particular. In late 2008, the US …

Marine dredging is an excavation activity carried out worldwide by many industries. Concern
about the impact dredging has on marine life, including marine mammals (cetaceans …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

Animal–vehicle collisions (AVC s) are a substantial problem in a human‐dominated world,
but little is known about what goes wrong, from the animal's perspective, when a collision …

There is no proverbial silver bullet for mitigating human–wildlife conflict, but the study of
animal behaviour is foundational to solving issues of coexistence between people and wild …

The various forms of anthropogenic pollution of seas and oceans have been extensively
studied in recent decades. The most significant factors are the destructive environmental …

All species of large whales are susceptible to vessel strikes, but the true scale and
geographical extent of such strikes is not known. This paper provides a qualitative …

The rapid recovery of the Australian humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) population
and parallel increase in maritime traffic, has increased the spatial overlap between whales …