The IWDG has been successful in winning another Harbour Porpoise Survey from the NPWS for 2018. This is the seventh porpoise survey contract IWDG have won from the NPWS and the third time we will survey the Blasket Islands SAC for this qualifying interest. These surveys are required to meet state obligations for Habitats Directive […]

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) have been working in collaboration with the Regional Veterinary Laboratories of the Department of Agriculture (RVL) and the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) to carry out a cetacean post-mortem scheme on behalf of the Marine Institute and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.  Utilising the IWDG’s well established […]

IWDG in collaboration with Dublin Port staff deployed four moorings with CPODs attached and an AMAR last week as part of the marine mammal acoustic monitoring programme associated with the Alexandra Basin Re-developement. CPODs are click detectors, logging the echolocation clicks of porpoise and dolphins while the AMAR, supplied by JASCO Applied Sciences in Canada, […]

IWDG Consultants were onsite to implement the mitigation plan for the maintenance dredging campaign. For the duration of the project (6 weeks), two of our consultants were based on-board the source vessel as well as another being land based and implemented the NPWS “Guidance to Manage the Risk to Marine Mammals from Man Made Sound Sources in Irish […]