Seal Conservation Society

Links to Pinniped-related Web Pages

There are a great number of web pages on the internet with information on seals, sea lions and walruses. This page contains links to some of the Society's favourite pinniped-related pages and other useful sources of information. Please contact the Society if you have any suggestions of links that could be added to this list or if you have problems with accessing any of the pages.

You can find even more pinniped-related pages by surfing through the links pages of some of the sites listed below or by using your favourite web search engine. Search terms that you might want to include are:

"pinniped" "pinnipeds" "seal" "seals" "marine mammal" "marine mammals" "walrus" "walruses" "sea lion" "sea lions" "Pinnipedia" "Otariidae" "Phocidae" "Odobenidae"

 

Sections


Research and Governmental Organisations

This section lists organisations with web sites containing information on pinnipeds or on a particular pinniped-related research program.

Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit (AWRU) - Australia

Australian Antarctic Division - Biology Section - Australia

Latrobe University - Sea Mammal Ecology Group (SMEG) - Australia

Macquarie University - Graduate School of the Environment - Marine Mammal Research Group (MMRG) - Australia

Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service - Australia

Department of Fisheries and Ocean (DFO) - Canada

International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) - Denmark

Elephant Seals Research Group (ESRG) - Italy / Falkland Islands

Swedish Museum of Natural History - Contaminant Research Group - Sweden

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) - U.K.

JerseySeals - U.K.

Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) - U.K.

Shetland Sea Mammal Group - U.K.

Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) - U.S.

Allied Whale (The Marine Mammal Laboratory at College of the Atlantic) - U.S.

Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island (CRESLI) - U.S.

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories - Ornithology and Mammalogy Laboratory - U.S.

National Marine Sanctuary Program - U.S.

NOAA Fisheries (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) - U.S.

NOAA Fisheries, National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) - U.S

NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) - Protected Species Branch - U.S.

NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources (F/PR) - U.S.

NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) - Marine Mammal Research - U.S.

Society for Marine Mammalogy - U.S.

Texas A&M University - Laboratory for Applied Biotelemetry and Biotechnology - U.S.

University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) - Pinniped Research in Cognition and Sensory Systems - U.S.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) - U.S.

USFWS Marine Mammals Management Field Office, Anchorage - U.S.

Whale Center of New England - U.S.

WhaleNet - U.S.


Regulations and Conventions

Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats

Bonn Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)

Canadian Marine Mammal Regulations

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

European Community (EC) Legislation on Conservation of Wild Fauna and Flora

HELCOM Recommendation 9/1

IUCN Red List

U.K. Conservation of Seals Act

U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA)

U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)


Sources of News and Other Information

Some of the organisations listed in other sections also have news pages e.g SeaWeb's 'Ocean Update'.

Animal Concerns

Conservation Online

Environmental News Network

Lycos Environment News (ENS)

MARMAM Discussion List

Marmamnews

NOAA News Releases

Planet Ark

U.S. Federal Register


Marine Conservation

Coastal Guide Europe

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC/UNESCO)

Marine and Coastal Community Network (MCCN)

Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI)

Marine Conservation Society (MCS)

OCEAN98

Oceans and Coastal Resources: A Briefing Book


General Environment and
Animal Welfare

American Society of International Law (ASIL) - Wildlife Interest Group

Animal Contacts Directory

El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 1997-98

EnviroLink

NetVet - Marine Mammals

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)

World Animal Network (WAN)


Aquaculture and Fisheries

B.C. Salmon Aquaculture Report

FishLink

Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)

U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) - Fisheries Department


Cetaceans

American Cetacean Society (ACS)

Breach Marine Protection

Cetacean Society International (CSI)

European Cetacean Society (ECS)

Finns for the Whales Association

Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT)

International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

Whale Center of New England

Whale-Watching Web


Organisations Promoting Sealing

Canadian Sealers Association

High North Alliance

North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)


Educational, Personal and Other Pages

Ecovolunteer Foça Project

Jaap's Marine Mammal Pages

Online Zoologists - Pinnipeds

Pinniped's Place

Rodrigo's Marine Mammal Home Page

WhaleTimes

Zoológico Electrónico


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