Wildlife Trusts calls for protection for UK's 17 marine megafauna hotspots

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Basking sharks, harbour porpoises and white-beaked dolphins at risk from boat tours, windfarms and fishnets

The threat to dolphins, porpoises, whales and sharks from boat tours, windfarm construction and fishing nets around British shores has prompted conservationists to call for legal protections of hotspots to preserve such marine megafauna.

The Wildlife Trusts identified 17 hotspots of wildlife, from harbour porpoises in Cardigan Bay on the west coast to white-beaked dolphins on the east at Dogger Bank, where the 29 species of cetaceans and sharks that inhabit UK waters are most commonly found.

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