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  1. More evidence of unsustainable dolphin-watching practices in Bocas del Toro, Panama
  2. “Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right”—the sad case of Vaquita, the Trump administration and the removal of protections for whales and dolphins
  3. “Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right”—the sad case of Vaquita & the Trump administration
  4. Evaluating the sustainability of the gray-whale-watching industry along the pacific coast of North America
  5. Lower public concern for biodiversity than for wilderness, natural places, charismatic megafauna and/or habitats
  6. Marine “Conservation”: You Keep Using That Word but I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means
  7. Impacts of Navy Sonar on Whales and Dolphins: Now beyond a Smoking Gun?
  8. Management and conservation at the International Whaling Commission: A dichotomy sandwiched within a shifting baseline
  9. Why Conferences Matter—An Illustration from the International Marine Conservation Congress
  10. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2015–2016
  11. Tourists' Perspectives on Dolphin Watching in Bocas Del Toro, Panama
  12. Forensic species identification of elasmobranch products sold in Costa Rican markets
  13. Illegal Trade of Marine Mammal Bone Exposed: Simple Test Identifies Bones of “Mermaid Ivory” or Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)
  14. Improving Captive Marine Mammal Welfare in the United States: Science-Based Recommendations for Improved Regulatory Requirements for Captive Marine Mammal Care
  15. “Advocacy” and “Activism” Are Not Dirty Words–How Activists Can Better Help Conservation Scientists
  16. Why IUCN Should Replace “Data Deficient” Conservation Status with a Precautionary “Assume Threatened” Status—A Cetacean Case Study
  17. The Kraken in the Aquarium: Questions that Urgently Need to be Addressed in Order to Advance Marine Conservation
  18. Evaluating support for shark conservation among artisanal fishing communities in Costa Rica
  19. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2014–2015
  20. Your Science Conference Should Have a Code of Conduct
  21. Boat operators in Bocas del Toro, Panama display low levels of compliance with national whale-watching regulations
  22. Correction to: Rewriting the history of an extinction—was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?: Table 1.
  23. Non-governmental Organizations and Government Agencies Lead in Cultivating Positive Sea Turtle Conservation Attitudes
  24. Serendipity in research—investigation into illegal wildlife trade discovers a new population of Steller's sea cows: a reply to Pyensonet al.(2016): Table 1.
  25. The Behavioural Ecology of Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins in Hong Kong
  26. Is Marine Conservation Science Becoming Irrelevant to Policy Makers?
  27. Have you got what it takes? Looking at skills and needs of the modern marine conservation practitioner
  28. “Back off, man, I'm a scientist!” When marine conservation science meets policy
  29. The modelling and assessment of whale-watching impacts
  30. Making marine science matter – A special issue highlighting the third International Marine Conservation Congress
  31. Competitive outreach in the 21st century: Why we need conservation marketing
  32. Whale-Watching Activity in Bahía Málaga, on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, and its Effect on Humpback Whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae) Behavior
  33. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2013–2014
  34. So you think you want to run an environmental conservation meeting? Advice on the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that accompany academic conference planning
  35. The good, the bad and the ugly science: examples from the marine science arena
  36. Increased knowledge about sharks increases public concern about their conservation
  37. Key research questions to be addressed to support cetacean conservation
  38. Rewriting the history of an extinction--was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?
  39. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2012–2013
  40. Editorial: Coauthors gone bad; how to avoid publishing conflict and a proposed agreement for co-author teams
  41. Seventy-One Important Questions for the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity
  42. How Twitter Literacy Can Benefit Conservation Scientists
  43. Politics, people and polar bears
  44. Editorial: So you want to be a Jedi? Advice for conservation researchers wanting to advocate for their findings
  45. Attitudes towards marine mammal conservation issues before the introduction of whale-watching: a case study in Aruba (southern Caribbean)
  46. Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: The Science-Policy Disconnect: Language Issues at the Science-Policy Boundary
  47. Attitudes of College Undergraduates Towards Coyotes (Canis latrans) in an Urban Landscape: Management and Public Outreach Implications
  48. Myth and Momentum: A Critique of Environmental Impact Assessments
  49. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2011–2012
  50. Ineffectiveness of a marine sanctuary zone to protect burrunan dolphins (Tursiops australissp.nov.) from commercial tourism in Port Phillip Bay, Australia
  51. You'll be a conservationist if…
  52. Killer Whale Killers
  53. What's in a Name? Do Species' Names Impact Student Support for Conservation?
  54. Priority Actions for Sustainable Forest Management in the International Year of Forests
  55. The Perceived Conservation Status of Polar Bears and Penguins
  56. The Negative Impacts of Whale-Watching
  57. Sweeping scientific data under a polar bear skin rug: The IUCN and the proposed listing of polar bears under CITES Appendix I
  58. Ten guiding principles for the delineation of priority habitat for endangered small cetaceans
  59. Shifting baselines in scientific publications: A case study using cetacean research
  60. Short Note: Marine Mammal Ecotypes: Implications for Otter Conservation and Management
  61. Whales and Dolphins
  62. Making Marine Science Matter—A Special Issue Highlighting the First International Marine Conservation Congress 19–24 May, 2009, Washington, DC
  63. The Impact of Information on Students' Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Coyotes
  64. Size matters: Management of stress responses and chronic stress in beaked whales and other marine mammals may require larger exclusion zones
  65. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2009–2010
  66. Public awareness and attitudes towards naval sonar mitigation for cetacean conservation: A preliminary case study in Fairfax County, Virginia (the DC Metro area)
  67. Navy sonar, cetaceans and the US Supreme Court: A review of cetacean mitigation and litigation in the US
  68. Cetaceans and military sonar: A need for better management
  69. Tourist Attitudes Towards Marine Mammal Tourism: An Example from the Dominican Republic
  70. A Note on Illegal Captures of Wild Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) From the Coastal Waters of the Dominican Republic
  71. Awareness of Whale Conservation Status and Whaling Policy in the US—A Preliminary Study on American Youth
  72. The trade in live Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins from Solomon Islands—A CITES decision implementation case study
  73. The Conservation of British Cetaceans: A Review of the Threats and Protection Afforded to Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises in UK Waters, Part 1
  74. The Conservation of British Cetaceans: A Review of the Threats and Protection Afforded to Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises in UK Waters, Part 2
  75. Whale Watching and the International Whaling Commission: A Report of the 2008 Whale-Watching Subcommittee Meeting
  76. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2008–2009
  77. Gaining Traction: Retreading the Wheels of Marine Conservation
  78. A reason not to support whaling – a tourism impact case study from the Dominican Republic
  79. One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity
  80. A critique of the UK’s JNCC seismic survey guidelines for minimising acoustic disturbance to marine mammals: Best practise?
  81. Urging cautious policy applications of captive research data is not the same as rejecting those data
  82. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2007–2008
  83. Recent Advances in Whale-Watching Research: 2006–2007
  84. Navy sonar and cetaceans: Just how much does the gun need to smoke before we act?
  85. Recent Advances in Whale-watching Research: 2005–2006
  86. It’s not just poor science – Japan’s “scientific” whaling may be a human health risk too
  87. Attitudes of Scottish City Inhabitants to Cetacean Conservation
  88. A survey of public opinion in south-west Scotland on cetacean conservation issues
  89. A survey of public awareness of the occurrence and diversity of cetaceans in south-west Scotland
  90. The value of conserving whales: the impacts of cetacean-related tourism on the economy of rural West Scotland
  91. Organochlorine and Trace Element Contamination in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the South China Sea
  92. Parasites from Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphins (Sousa chinensis) and finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) stranded in Hong Kong
  93. Effects of diel and seasonal cycles on the dive duration of the minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
  94. POST-MORTEM INVESTIGATIONS ON STRANDED DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES FROM HONG KONG WATERS
  95. Trace element concentrations in whole fish from North Lantau waters, Hong Kong
  96. Trace element concentrations in the tissues of cetaceans from Hong Kong's territorial waters
  97. Postmortem findings in a finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) calf stranded in Hong Kong
  98. Trace Metal and Organochlorine Concentrations in a Pygmy Bryde's Whale (Balaenoptera edeni) from the South China Sea
  99. Trace metal pollution in Hong Kong: Implications for the health of Hong Kong's Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphins (Sousa chinensis)
  100. The whale-watching industry
  101. The socioeconomic, educational and legal aspects of whale-watching
  102. Polar Bears
  103. Marine Mammals
  104. Marine Mammals
  105. Hong Kong's Cetaceans