I have spent most of my life working with whales and dolphins and other ocean creatures in more than 50 countries. I have also worked in the rain forest — looking at ant societies and rain forest ecosystems. I love new frontiers and I see my writing as a chance to explore the outer edges of what we know about wild animals, the ocean and the Earth; to give a voice to these other, not lesser, lives; and to try to shape in a positive way the human relationship to wild nature. Please feel free to visit my blog or any of the other links on this page. The books section gives a preview of the books I have written, with reviews collected by my publishers. More info offers downloads of papers, articles, reports, poster-maps and whale and dolphin sounds. See the talks page for more about the talks and presentations I give. In 2012-2014, following the successful Second International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas in Martinique with its ‘Endangered Spaces; Endangered Species’ theme, I will be devoting most of my time to a world campaign “Homes for Whales and Dolphins” to create a network of substantial, highly protected marine protected areas for whales and dolphins. This work is being co-ordinated through WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, an international conservation group based in the UK, US, Germany, Australia and Latin America. You can find out more about the campaign by going to cetaceanhabitat.org and homesforwhales. Please sign WDC’s Global Petition for Marine Protected Areas. — Erich Hoyt NEWS Sneak peek at my new deep sea book for ages 10 to adult: publication date May 2013 in the US and Canada, June 2013 in the UK. For more information, go here. Advance copies in hardcover or paperback can be ordered from any of the Amazon sites. In the US, click here. And in the UK, click here. Announcing the first ebook edition of Seasons of the Whale, revised and expanded.... Seasons of the Whale ebook, available on kindle, updates the fates of Comet, Stripe and the other known blue, humpback and right whales loved by researchers and the public. 25 years ago, I began researching and writing this story as US and Canadian scientists tried to unravel what had happened following severe pollution events in the western North Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting story, told largely from the whales’ point of view, was a call for all of us to take much greater care with what we were putting into and what we were doing to the ocean. Now, in 2013, this 8th newly revised and expanded edition of the book makes us realize that the problems have not disappeared, yet there are many positive signs, too, in the persistence of even the most endangered whales and the growing relationships between whales and people. The book is available for instant download from: Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/XBIFOY Amazon.co.uk: http://amzn.to/10iiP0W Amazon.de (Germany): http://amzn.to/YX8mW0 Amazon.fr (France): http://amzn.to/14AGZrL Amazon.es (Spain): http://amzn.to/X9mJsZ Amazon.ca (Canada): http://amzn.to/ZwTcGe Amazon.co.jp (Japan): http://amzn.to/10iYuZa Outstanding Academic Book Awards for 2012: The influential journal CHOICE in the US has selected Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises as one of the Outstanding Academic books of 2012 (Choice, Feb 2013 issue). CHOICE called the book “Essential...for all academic, general, and professional audiences.” The world’s whale watching community met at Whale Fest Oct 25-28, 2012, in Brighton. On Oct. 25, I spoke on “Identifying & Protecting the Critical Habitat of Whales & Dolphins”, Whale Fest, Planet Whale Conference, Brighton, UK. Name and Logo change — Oct. 2012: On its 25th birthday, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), an international conservation group based in the UK, US, Germany, Australia and Latin America, with projects in more than 40 countries, has changed its name to WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation and it has a new logo, too. In April 2013 the new website will go live: www.whales.org. Iceberg update: Sept 2012. No sign of Iceberg, the white bull orca — this is the story despite having two teams on the water off Kamchatka and Bering Island for most of the summer, despite searching the waters around the Commander Islands where Iceberg was last seen. We did find an albino reindeer calf and a young albino fur seal, both on Bering Island. Snow patches persist here year-round so it is tempting to think that it’s partly camouflage for white land mammals. The reindeer often stand on the snow to cool down and probably to avoid the squadrons of Russian steel-beaked mosquitoes that embraced our research team and kept us company all summer. When we meet Iceberg or our other two white orca friends, I will post the news here, on our russianorca facebook page, and on my facebook page. Rio+20: 21 June 2012 Blog. Happy World Oceans Day: 8 June 2012. Read my blog from last year’s World Oceans Day about Asher Jay and her art installation “Message in a Bottle”. Then take a look at her lovely, haunting video of the 100 bottles. 4 May 2012: Iceberg — the white bull orca, marine media-star….and much more. The media reporting over the past 2 weeks about the existence of Iceberg — an all-white mature male killer whale, or orca, seen off the Commander Islands, Far East Russia — travelled across the world. The media reports also stimulated fruitful reactions, including debates among scientists, about whether Iceberg is an albino, or whether there is another reason for his whiteness. Is Iceberg the only all-white male orca bull in the wild, or are there others? Read more here. 22 April 2012: Introducing “Iceberg” — an extremely rare, all white mature male orca. Shown at right and in the above photo with his family, Iceberg lives in the waters of the Commander Islands, Far East Russia. Find out more about him and our 14-year project to study orcas and other whales in Russia in my blog, the Shifting Values blog, russianorca.com and in this video. In 2012, the Beautiful Whale Project, launched in Tokyo December 2010, is working with international conservation groups WDC and IFAW and Hunter Hall (Australia) to give funds to Japanese whale watch operations affected by the tsunami. The symposium ‘New Tales about Whales in Science, Society & Art’ at United Nations University and the events and exhibition Eye to Eye with the Whale at Temporary Contemporary Gallery, featured the life-size whale photographs of Bryant Austin and the animations of Haruyoshi Kawai. For more information, please see beautifulwhale.com and beautifulwhale.jp (Japanese) and my blog entry. New Poster MAP of the world’s marine protected areas and sanctuaries to celebrate the 2011 publication of Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises is available now for free download or hard copy. Enquire here. The fully updated 2nd edition of Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises became available Sept. 2011 (a WDC book published by Earthscan, London and New York). In May, another Earthscan-WDC book was published: Whales and Dolphins: Cognition, Culture, Conservation and Human Perceptions, edited by Philippa Brakes and Mark Simmonds. Highly recommended! 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