- Sea Watch Director, Peter Evans, received the European Cetacean Society Conservation Award, 2012, and in 2015 was voted one of the top 50 most influential conservationists in Britain by a team of experts for BBC Wildlife
- Sea Watch Foundation was recipient of the UNEP/ASCOBANS “Outreach and Education Award”, 2009
- Sea Watch Foundation was voted best UK animal adoption scheme by BBC Wildlife, December 2008
- A Status Review, commissioned to Sea Watch Foundation by the UK Nature Conservancy in 1986, provided the harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin with special status under the Wildlife and Countryside Act
- Submissions by Sea Watch Foundation to the North Sea Conference and UK North Sea Forum contributed directly to a new international Agreement for the Conservation of Small Cetaceans in the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS)
- A collaborative effort between the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Sea Mammal Research Unit and Sea Watch Foundation led to the production of the only existing Distribution Atlas for cetaceans in NW Europe. This has served as the major reference for environmental impact assessments of human activities throughout the region for two decades
- Sea Watch Foundation research studies of bottlenose dolphins helped lead to two areas in Cardigan Bay being recommended as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) for the species. Since 2001, the organisation has monitored the bottlenose dolphin population, providing data for the Welsh Government through Natural Resources Wales
- Sea Watch Foundation was commissioned in 2015-16 by the Joint Nature Conservation Committe to identify areas of high concentration of harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin for designation of Natura 2000 sites in UK waters under the EU Habitats and Species Directive
- Sea Watch Foundation, in collaboration with Bangor University, as part of the five-year Marine Ecosystems Research Project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), has collated survey data from across NW European shelf seas to produce new distribution maps in 2019 for all the major cetacean and seabird species
- Sea Watch Foundation has produced reports and specialist advice for the European Commission, European Cetacean Society, UK Department of the Environment, UK International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, OSPAR, and ASCOBANS, assessing the threats to cetaceans from particular human activities, and the role that protected areas can play in conservation.
