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Title Year Authors Category Conservation Measure
Plan de Acción para la Conservación de los Mamíferos Acuáticos de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana 2013 Utreras, V Conservation Plan Conservation Action Plan
Visual-acoustic survey of cetaceans during a seismic study in the Southeast Caribbean Sea, April—June 2004 2013 Smultea, M. A. Peer-reviewed journal article Research and monitoring
To ping or not to ping: the use of active acoustic devices in mitigating interactions between small cetaceans and gillnet fisheries 2013 Dawson, S.M. Peer-reviewed journal article Acoustic deterrents/Pingers
Marine mammal bycatch in gillnet and other entangling net fisheries, 1990 to 2011 2013 Reeves R. R Peer-reviewed journal article Fisheries management
WORLD HERITAGE ADVICE NOTE: ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 2013 IUCN Report, NGO Multiple conservation measures
Impacts of Brazil’s Madeira River Dams: Unlearned lessons for hydroelectric development in Amazonia 2013 Fearnside, P.M. Peer-reviewed journal article Multiple conservation measures
Insights on the use of dolphins (boto, Inia geoffrensis and Tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis) for bait in the piracatinga (Calophysus macropterus) fishery in the western Brazilian Amazon 2013 Iriarte, V. Peer-reviewed journal article Fisheries management
Report of the workshop on the assessment of southern right whales. 2013 International Whaling Commission Peer-reviewed journal article Species knowledge and understanding
River dolphin (Inia geoffrensis, Sotalia fluviatilis) mortality events attributed to artisanal fisheries in the Western Brazilian Amazon 2013 Iriarte, V. Peer-reviewed journal article Research and monitoring
Decadal Change in the Surface Water Salinity Profile of Indian Sundarbans: A Potential Indicator of Climate Change. 2013 Banerjee K Peer-reviewed journal article Research and monitoring
Particulate and dissolved trace element concentrations in three southern Ecuador rivers impacted by artisanal gold mining 2013 Carling, G. T Peer-reviewed journal article
Factors determining occupancy of Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) during differing river discharges in the upper Ganges, India. 2012 Bashir, T. Peer-reviewed journal article
Conservation ecology and phylogenetics of the Indus River dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor) 2012 Braulik G. Thesis Species knowledge and understanding
Habitat use by a freshwater dolphin in the low-water season 2012 Braulik, G. Peer-reviewed journal article Species knowledge and understanding
Simplified Resource Manual to Support Application of the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment 2012 UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Report, Government Multiple conservation measures
Robust abundance estimate for endangered river dolphin subspecies in South Asia. 2012 Braulik, G. T. Peer-reviewed journal article Species knowledge and understanding
Manual of Good Hygiene Practice for Fishing Boats and Fish Landing Sites in Small Scale Fisheries 2012 Cambodia Department of Fisheries Post-Harvest Technologies and Quality Control Report, Government Fisheries management
Etho-ecological study of the Amazon River dolphin, Inia geoffrensis (Cetacea: Iniidae), and the dolphins of the genus Sotalia (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in Guamá River, Amazonia. 2012 Santos, G.M.A. Peer-reviewed journal article Species knowledge and understanding
A quantitative assessment of fish passage efficiency 2012 Noonan, M.J. Peer-reviewed journal article Fish ladders
River dolphins as indicators of ecosystem degradation in large tropical rivers 2012 Gomez-Salazar, C Peer-reviewed journal article Species knowledge and understanding