I have spent most of my life working with whales and dolphins and other ocean creatures in more than 40 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 any of the links on this page. The books section gives you 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 2009-10, I will be devoting most of my time to launching an effort to identify and define whale and dolphin habitat as recommended by the first International Conference on Marine Mammal Protected Areas, held in Maui, Hawaii, March 30 - April 3, 2009. I am also contributing to a world campaign to create a network of substantial, high quality marine protected areas for whales and dolphins. You can find out more about this by going to cetaceanhabitat.org. Please sign WDCS’s Global Petition for Marine Protected Areas.
— Erich Hoyt
A new printing of Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises is now available.
To order in quantity, click here.
World Oceans Day was June 8, 2009. See my blog.
Marine Mammals of Russia was published Oct. 2009, available in Russian only.
A limited number of free copies for Arctic and other researchers is available --
