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On the road to the Algarve

Jan 27th, 2010
by Chico.
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Tomorrow I’m heading to the Algarve to attend 2 days of speeches by imminent scientists, one of them being my friend Sidney Holt, and the other Dan Pauly, a well-known scientist on fisheries management and advocate of Marine Protected Areas (MPA). I’ll stay with Sidney’s son, Tim Holt, also a good buddy, very kind for letting [...]

The [bloody] Cove

Jan 27th, 2010
by Chico.
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The fisrt time I saw footage of this film, was at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in Chile, 2008. I also had the chance of meeting some of the people involved in the making, Louie Psihoyos and Joe Chisholm, from Ocean Preservation Society (OPS). I was astonished, dismayed, and angry, by all the footage, and [...]