Connections

// Also by myself

Fatum Surfboards
(English)
I’m not really the author of the website but I’m the one who updates it. Gero Tragatschnig apart from being a great shaper is a good guy. His surfboards are surf riding machines in fthe orm of art. Drop him a visit.

Baleal Surf Fest
(Português)
This is an event aimed at conscience gathering in relation to our oceans and its conservation. It is held at the surf city of Baleal, Portugal. It is composed of three different themes: Surf, Music and Art.

No Whaling
(English, Castellano, Português)
This is a website that aims to converge news and articles related to the whaling issue under a single frame. It has 3 working languages (English, Castellano, and Português) and gathers information from around the world in a more or less comprehensive way. It is meant for all range of users and net-clients to heightening public awareness about the plight of the seas in particular whaling.

// Favourites

Anti-Slavery International
(English)
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world’s oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. I’m a member, what about you?

Cetáceos Madeira
(Português)
It was with this project that I first got in contact with the study of cetaceans. I volunteered in 2002 and 2003, good moments, great people.

Chez Rémi
(Français, English, Castellano)
This is the blog of Rémi Parmentier, a Frenchman and dear friend. Rémi’s way of writing and topics are very interesting. His blog as become a regular stop for me.

Fatum Travel
(English)
Fatum Travel’s mission is the search for excellence, to achieve in the most rentable manner the satisfaction of our clients, while providing good service. Book your dream surf-trip to Central America here and you won’t be disappointed!

Global Garden
(English)
Global Garden is the consulting firm of Peter Bridgewater, which can provide ideas and advice to governmental,and intergovernmental organisations on sustain ability, linkages between climate change and biodiversity and linkages between cultural and biological diversity.
It has by mission to;
provide knowledge, skills and expertise in biodiversity conservation and management so as to promote sustainable development.

Global Ocean
(English)
Global Ocean is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation of marine life. By heightening public awareness about the plight of the seas.

Golden Dragon
(Português)
Specialists in tattoos and piercings. Vítor is my tattooist, and has done all the samoan/maori work that I have on my body.

Greenpeace International
(Multi-language)
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.

Greenpeace Portugal
(Português)
The Portuguese branch of Greenpeace. In Portugal GP has been focusing their work more on fisheries and climate change.

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
(Multi-language)
From the outset, the founders IFAW, rejected the notion that the interests of humans and animals were separate. Instead they embraced the understanding that the fate and future of animals on Earth-are inextricably linked to our own.

International Whaling Commission (IWC)
(English)
The official website of the IWC. It contents can give you an idea what goes on in terms of affairs and activities related to whaling management. Good source of information.

Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (LPN)
(Português)
With over 60 years of work and excellence along environment movement in Portugal, LPN is a  mark and one of the most outstanding icons of Portugal’s NGOs. It work and importance and experience couldn’t be more necessary.

Mammals Encounters Education and Research (M.E.E.R. e.V.)
(English, Castellano, Deutsch)
This is a German organization with which I did a course on ethology during 2003. The next year I was back to conduct a research program that lead to my degree’s dissertation.

Marcial ArtSports
(Português)
It a superb Martial Arts store (retailer and distributor) where you can find virtually everything related to Martial Arts and its components. Check website for details.

Narcisicamente
(Português)
A great blog where S.B. delivers translucent perspectives about her inner-self that could be from anyone, if they were not so narcissistic…

New Internationalist
(English)
With over 30 years of publishing , and more than 75,000 subscribers worldwide, the NIt is renowned for its radical, campaigning stance on a range of world issues, from the cynical marketing of babymilk in the Majority World to human rights in Burma.

Ocean Quest
(English)
Lee Garbett and Richard Barton were my dive instructors from the very beginning. Excellent professionals and hardcore divers, learning to dive in the UK is hard but that is what takes to be a good diver.~

PESCA
(Multi-language)
The Blog of a Portuguese Platform of NGOs that gathered to address the problem of fisheries in Portugal, EU and ultimately the global issue. It has many information around the theme fisheries.

PEW Charitable Trusts
(English)
The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public and stimulate civic life.

PEW Whale Conservation Project
(English)
For the past two decades, Pew has been a major force in both informing and promoting conservation policy in the United States and, in recent years, internationally. Pew’s Environment Group is staffed by senior scientists, attorneys and policy experts, all of whom have had significant experience in government, nonprofit advocacy organizations and the private sector.

Practical Ethics
(English)
This is the website of William Lynn (Bill), who I’ve met in Limerick (aka Stab City), Ireland. Geographer and Ethicist Bill can make you wonder about to go around with our lives. Is there any right or wrong?

Soraia Fonseca
(English)
Soraia is a designer/painter/artist that is always with a smile and good face when I bug her. She always does a professional job and never asks for nothing in return sometimes I’m even embarassed of asking her for more favours. Thank you!

SOS Children Villages
(Multi-language)
Started in Austria, it soon expanded to be a world-wide organization. Alleviating the suffering of children and making them to believe in a better future.

Stop Whaling!
(English)
IFAW’s whale related website with resources, news and other interactive contents.

SurfAid International
(English)
The mission of SurfAid International, a non-profit humanitarian aid organization, is to improve the health of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing.

Surfers for Cetaceans
(English)
Surfers for Cetaceans calls on surfers to support the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins and other marine wildlife, to protest whaling and the killing of threatened and endangered species, and to end the pollution of our marine environment.

Transparency International
(English)
Corruption is in the order of the day all over the world; decimating lives, creating poverty and calamity. Transparency International is a global coalition against corruption.

University of Glamorgan
(English)
Glamorgan was the last place I thought I would take a degree in Biology, but it did happened, with me spending 3 years there. Good teaching and academic programs.