Partners

National partners

Our work with porpoises and other marine mammals gives us the chance to work with many other research programmes. For example:

  • with diet and contaminant studies
  • that does research on foraging history of cetaceans
  • on the effect of underwater noise on marine mammals
  • when a live marine mammal has stranded or just died
  • (the Natural History Museum in Leiden) joins us when larger whales strand on the Dutch coast
  • The (DWHC) for a continuous exchange of information concerning wildlife disease

The National Stranding Network collects and reports all stranded animals and is partly made up of:

  • Volunteers and employees of
  • The
  • , who report and collect stranded sea creatures
  • The (RTZ)

Found a stranded marine mammal? Register it at:

Collaboration plastic pollution

Plastic waste is a major environmental problem; both in magnitude and in complexity, with effective solutions inherently interdisciplinary. Our researchers are part of the Utrecht Plastic Sources, Sinks and Solutions (UPlasticS3) network. This network is a unique combination of scientists with all expertises required to investigate the sources and sinks of plastic pollution. For more information regarding this network: /en/research/sustainability/uplastics3

European partners

Our research permits close collaboration with similar programmes at European universities, such as the Universities of and Hannover () as well as the British Stranding Networks; the in Inverness and Glasgow and the in London. Belgium, Germany, Northern France, England and Scotland all have a North Sea coastline; marine mammals do not recognise country borders and, therefore, a coordinated effort to conserve the North Sea and Wadden Sea marine mammal populations is essential.
 

Stranding Initiative by the International Whaling Commission

The International Whaling Commission is an organisation operating globally for the protection of whales. In 2016, the IWC approved a new initiative to share international expertise and information on strandings, establish best practice guidelines, and provide training for emergency response, with the ultimate goal of building global capacity for stranding response, research, and data collection. The activities of the are led and guided by a diverse team of experts. This team comprises veterinarians, pathologists, forensic scientists, marine biologists, and educators from global stranding networks, government agencies, academic institutions, and non-governmental conservation organisations.