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We welcome your additions, updates and corrections to the Cetacean habitat directory for MPAs and sanctuaries. This online directory follows the numbering and listings in Erich Hoyt's book, Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (2005, Earthscan, London, 516pp). Please help us to make this an evolving, valuable resource.

Just click on the links below which will take you to the appropriate form to fill out. At the bottom of the form, there is a button to click which will allow you to check your information before sending it. Then, by clicking the button on the checking page to send the form, the form will automatically be sent for editing and posting to the site within 30 days. (Thus, you won't be able to see the changes in the directory right away.)

Please be as accurate and complete as possible, although partially completed forms are also valuable. Please be sure to give us your contact name and email so that we can follow up if something is unclear.

To see the complete Cetacean habitat directory of more than 500 MPA and sanctuary sites, click here.

To search the directory, click here.

To update, expand or correct information in an existing entry, click here.

To create a new entry for an MPA or sanctuary (proposed or existing) not listed in the directory, click here.

Click here to open interactive mapsTo use clickable PDF maps to access the cetacean habitat directory and all the individual MPAs, click on the world map at right and select a region to view. (Best viewed at a minimum screen resolution of 1024x786.) When using the maps, you may find it useful to have more than one browser window open at a time.

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