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With the global awareness of the need to make our energies cleaner, marine constructions, typically wind farms, and especially offshore, have multiplied in recent years, and we can expect to see these numbers increase even more rapidly.The presence of marine mammals during offshore infrastructure works (pile driving, drilling, dredging) is now a major environmental concern, as it has been proven that they could be severely harmed by exceeding noises.In order to safeguard species and their natural habitats, more and more local legislations impose a cap on sound levels caused by all offshore activities.As of 2023, this is the mainly the case in Europe (for instance in the United Kingdom Joint Nature Conservation Committee -JNCC, Southall et al., 2007 ; Popper and Hasting, 2009, Germany
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