A Life Among Whales

This production traces the influential work of whale biologist and activist Roger Payne whose career spans four decades of the environmental movement, and parallels the advances in science through those years.
Unafraid of powerful images, this film’s unique hybrid of biography and natural history leaves viewers contemplating our stewardship of Earth and co-existence with some of its most intriguing creatures.

Beginning with his pioneering research in Patagonia and controversial discoveries of whale songs and cross-ocean communications in the early 1970s, to his study of ocean pollution now underway, Payne has consistently advanced the boundaries of science and activism.
Check the video preview, it has a powerful and emotive anti-whaling message: “If we cannot save the whales we cannot save anything!”
http://www.uncommonproductions.com/lifeamongwhales/

Whale and Dolphin Magazine

It was with great sadness that I’ve received the news from Rachel Jackson that WDCS made the decision to close down the “Whale and Dolphin Magazine”, that it was running for the past year. In the words of the editor the “ WDCS resources for promotion and production of the magazine in its current format are no longer available.”

As some of you may know I was a collaborator of the magazine, but more than the opportunities of publishing my work I feel it to be a loss for the conservation movement. A voice that will not be heard anymore, words that will never going to be read again …