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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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 Tim [...]
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 me [...]
Palestras por cientistas eminentes – Lectures by eminent scientists at the University of Algarve
Exmos(as) Senhores(as),
Venho convidá-los para as palestras proferidas pelos professores Sidney Holt
e Daniel Pauly nos dias 28 e 29 de Janeiro no Campus de Gambelas da Universidade do Algarve. Os professores Holt e Pauly são os investigadores que maior influência tiveram na gestão mundial dos recursos marinhos nos últimos 50 anos. As palestras são de entrada [...]
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 Japan [...]
TIA, bru!
0035 of the 04/04/200 I was sitting at the 25A seat of the STP Airways taking off to Sao Tome (ST). I don’t understand why they feed us 2 courses within 5 hours when we are flying over night and what I really wanted to do was SLEEP, NOT EAT!
Landed ST at 0634 with people [...]
The road back to Africa
Tomorrow I’m heading to the small island state of São Tome and Principe, lying 150 miles (240 km) from the West African mainland.
There it will take place the 1st International Encounter on Local Development. I’m to give a lecture on whale-watching, and its perspectives on country, giving examples and making considerations in relation to the [...]
1º Encontro Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local
De 3 a 11 de Abril estarei de volta a São Tomé e Príncipe para tomar parte do 1º ENCONTRO INTERNACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO LOCAL (EIDL). Irei ministrar uma palestra com o título: Avistamento de Cetáceos prespectivado na realidade Santomense. Actividade esta que poderá ser muito benéfica para a comunidade costeira de STP tal como é [...]
IWC Intersessional – Day 3
Sea Shepherd (SS) dominated all the agenda of the 3rd and last morning of the IWC Intersessional meeting. Japan via the Institute of Cetacean research (ICR) (who conducts and runs the Japanese “junk-science” operations) presented a talk based on the “happenings” on the Southern Ocean during the last whaling season.
All their presentation was focused down [...]