Connections

// Also by myself

Baleal Surf Fest
(Português, English)
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.

// Favourites

Alex Machado Academy / Gracie Barra Lisboa
(Português)
The website of my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy. The most awarded Portuguese Jiu-Jitsu academy with a noble and great Sensei, Alexandre Machado.

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.

Fatum Surfboards
(English)
Gero Tragatschnig apart from being a great shaper is a good guy. His surfboards are surf riding machines in the form of art. Drop him a visit.

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.

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.

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.

My Whale Web
(English)
IFAW’s whale related website with resources, news and other interactive contents.

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.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS)
(Multi-Language)
You may agree or not with Captain Paul Watson ways but it remains unchallenged the lengths and achievements of Sea Shepherd in standing for our most cherished environmental causes.

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.

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