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9th August 2018 By Simon Berrow

IWDG Wins 2018 NPWS Harbour Porpoise Survey

Harbour Porpoise

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 […]

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10th November 2017 By Simon Berrow

IWDG win tender to carry out necropsies of stranded dolphins and porpoise

Common Dolphin Necropsy

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 […]

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15th December 2016 By Simon Berrow

IWDG deploy AMAR and CPODs off Dublin Port

AMAR for deployment in Dublin Bay

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, […]

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6th September 2016 By Simon Berrow

IWDG Consultants complete Dublin Port Maintenance dredging project

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 […]

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6th September 2016 By Simon Berrow

IWDG Consulting complete Aughinish Alumina dredging project

IWDG Consulting provided an experienced Marine Mammal Observer during dredging operations in the Shannon Estuary. The estuary is home to the only resident population of resident Bottlenose dolphins in Ireland and is a designated Special Area of Conservation (SAC). As such it is essential that the effects of any proposed works be mitigated against. Our consultant was onsite […]

Filed Under: IWDG Consulting News Tagged With: Consultancy, Dredging, Habitats directive, IWDG, Marine civil engineering, Marine mammal, Mitigation, SAC

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