Sunday Times investigation over Japan bribery over Whaling! A MUST SEE!
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Controversial whaling proposal fails at global meeting
23 June 2010 (Agadir, Morocco) – The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW-www.ifaw.org) announced today that a controversial proposal to legalize whaling has failed at the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Agadir, Morocco. “Under a cloud of corruption allegations the IWC is taking a safe course, opting for a cooling off [...]
Crisis as whaling talks move behind closed doors
ANDREW DARBY IN AGADIR, MOROCCO June 21, 2010 High-level talks over a global whaling peace deal are to be sent behind closed doors, in an abrupt move said to show that a bid for compromise is close to failure. The decision to suspend the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting shortly after it opens later today [...]
Japanese pay for whale delegates
The Sunday Times Insight team Published: 20 June 2010 The chairman of this week’s international summit on whaling is being secretly funded by a Japanese company to stay in a luxury hotel. Anthony Liverpool will open the crucial International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Morocco tomorrow which could vote to lift a 24-year ban on [...]
Killing with Keystrokes – Portugal Update
During February I conducted an Investigation on the Wildlife trade in Portugal via Internet, the so called, e-commerce. International trafficking in wildlife is estimated to reach well into the billions of Euros annually – a black market rivaling the size of the international trade in illegal drugs and weapons. Every year thousands of elephants are [...]
Robber Generations II – The Case of Fisheries
Day started early, around 0745, when I got up to the 4th floor to have breakfast and joined Tim, after Sidney and Dan Pauly joined in. Very pleasant view over the river and with nests of storks adorning several high-points in different sections of the town; they are now protect, as there are very few, [...]
Robber Generations I – The Case of Great Whales
My trip started at 0800 from Lisbon on a Bus drive to the Algarve where I arrived 1130, after overlooking some of the nice views that the Alentejo and the Algarve offer, just in time to meet Sidney and Tim Holt at Hotel Faro, very close to the bus station. I was greeted by Sidney [...]
On the road to the Algarve
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 [...]