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 [...]
Baleal Surf Fest II
Nos dia 18 e 19 de Junho decorre na Praia do Baleal em Peniche o BALEAL SURF FEST II. A génese e conceito do Baleal Surf Fest surgiu de uma necessidade de consciencialização da comunidade de surf e de todas as pessoas que utilizam os oceanos e a sua infinidade de serviços na busca de [...]
Abrindo Trilhos, Tecendo Redes (lançamento do livro)
Na próxima segunda-feira, dia 22 de Março de 2010 pelas 18:00 será feito o lançamento do livro “Abrindo Trilhos, Tecendo Redes. Reflexões e Experiências de Desenvolvimento Local em contexto Lusófono“, na Livraria Barata na Avenida de Rome 11-A. Eu sou co-autor, contribuindo com um capitulo para o livro, com o tema: Os cetáceos de São Tomé e Príncipe: A [...]
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 [...]