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Professor Peter Evans established Sea Watch Foundation in 1991 and is the Charity’s Director.

He has worked on marine mammals and birds for over 40 years and oversees the UK national cetacean monitoring scheme. He was founding Secretary, and later Chairman of the European Cetacean Society, as well as Editor for 21 years. He is Co-Chair of the ICES Working Group on Marine Mammal Ecology and a member of the Working Group on Bycatch of Protected Species, Co-Chair of the ASCOBANS-ACCOBAMS Bycatch Working Group, and Coordinator of the ASCOBANS Harbour Porpoise North Sea Conservation Plan. Peter has provided scientific advice to UNEP, OSPAR, European Commission, UK government and various NGO’s. In 2009, he received an award from UNEP/ASCOBANS for achievement in Environmental Education & Outreach, and in 2012, the European Cetacean Society’s Conservation Award. Peter’s field research concentrates upon ecological, behavioural and conservation biology studies of cetaceans in the UK. He has worked extensively on seabirds in Britain, Ireland and the Arctic and was former Secretary of the Seabird Group and editor of its journal, Seabird. He has written and/or edited 12 books and over 200 scientific publications and is Honorary Professor at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University.