Expert assessment of the impact of ship-strikes on cetacean welfare using the Welfare Assessment Tool for Wild Cetaceans
Human activities are increasingly impacting our oceans and the focus tends to be on their environmental impacts, rather than consequences for animal welfare. Global shipping density has quadrupled since 1992. Unsurprisingly, increased levels of vessel collisions with cetaceans have followed this glo...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2023-01-01
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Series: | Animal Welfare |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0962728623000076/type/journal_article |