Sometime ago I saw a documentary on Chris Porter and his Endeavour to export wild dolphins from the Solomon Islands to Dubai. The piece ended at the time when the dolphins had arrived to Dubai but the Hotel Atlantis (where the dolphins were to live from then on) fail to display them to the public [...]
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A importância dos “oceanários” na conservação dos oceanos
Por várias vezes aconteceu estar a fazer pesquisas sobre conservação de tartarugas em África, quais os stocks saudáveis de peixe para consumo em Portugal, áreas marinhas protegidas, práticas de sustentabilidade entre outros e o Oceanário de Lisboa é uma constante nos resultados dessas buscas. A semana passada, uma pessoa do Oceanário de Lisboa perguntou-me se [...]
1º Workshop SUSTAINAMICS
A semana passada (dia 16 de Dezembro 2009) participei no 1º workshop do projecto SUSTAINAMICS. O projecto SUSTAINAMICS – Modelação Participada para a Avaliação Integrada da Sustentabilidade, que aborda o desafio “Como criar uma visão holística dos problemas que afectam a sustentabilidade dos ambientes marinhos e costeiros em Portugal?”. Foi organizado pelos Centro de Investigação em [...]
END OF THE LINE – 2048!
The first time I saw the groundbreaking movie, End of the Line was at the 61st International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Madeira, Portugal, last June. It was brought as a last minute feature; in fact it was shown after the meeting had closed, by Melanie Salmon, CEO of the UK based charity Global Ocean. [...]
The End of Whaling in the Southern Ocean (?!?!)
I recall the message from the pro surfer and environmentalist warrior Dave Rastovich, just days before the 61st International Whaling Commission meeting started in Madeira, Portugal. He ended it by saying that “Honour and respect are nowhere to be found within the modern whaling crime”. This sentence to me marked that meeting and period, when [...]
200 Ballenas Piloto varadas en Tasmania
Ayer estaba hablando con Milko (Greenpeace Argentina) sobre el varamiento de ballenas piloto (o calderones) en Tasmania. El me perguntaba “que crees que este pasando en el mundo? según parece cada vez hay mas varamientos, mayoría en Tasmania y Australia. Es algo que cada día me intriga mas, a veces se sabe que es por [...]
NGOs Lunch, Shark Presentations, and Discussions
A week has passed now since the Shark Alliance Conference at the Luso-American Foundation in Lisbon. I had the opportunity and pleasure of being invited by Rémi Parmentier one of the organizers of the event to a lunch prior to the conference. There, I had the opportunity to meet some of the Portuguese NGOs people, [...]
Sharks at Risk: Building an EU Conservation Plan (open conference)
11th September 2007 Luso-American Foundation Rua do Sacramento à Lapa 21, 1249-090 Lisboa. Tel: (+351) 21 393 5800 Sharks, skates and rays are among the most vulnerable and under-protected species in European waters. The IUCN estimates a full third are threatened with extinction due to overfishing. Still, interest in fishing for these species is increasing [...]
Stop the seal hunt
A recent scientific study (Leaper and Matthews 2006) examining the Canadian government’s approach for determining the population status for Northwest Atlantic harp seals revealed that the current approach to managing the seal hunt risks seriously depleting the harp seal population by as much as 50 to 70 percent over the next 15 years. Removing so [...]
EcoCasa
EcoCasa é um projecto da Quercus para incentivar e alertar a importância de poupar energia e contribuir para um melhor ambiente adoptando para isso técnicas e criando hábitos no nosso dia-a-dias e mais propriamente dentro da nossa casa. O programa é dividido em 4 tópicos: (1) Lâmpadas, electrodomésticos e sistemas de climatização, (2) Soluções construtivas/Materiais [...]