Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

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A World Handbook for Cetacean Habitat Conservation Hoyt (senior research fellow, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) presents an investigation into the status, process, and potential of instituting cetacean habitat protection, which has the primary goal of promoting the best possible marine protected areas (MPAs) for whales, dolphins, and porpoises. After outlining the principles of good habit conservation of good habitat conservation in chapters on the design and management of marine protected areas and strategies for protecting cetaceans to complement and supplement MPAs, the bulk of the text is given over to the status of conservation in 18 marine regions, along with survey accounts of some 500 proposed and operating MPAs in the regions.