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	<title>Gossypium in Umbilico</title>
	<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com</link>
	<description>[exteriorized introspections] by Francisco Gonçalves</description>
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		<title>The case of the dolphins from Solomon Islands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/03/the-case-of-the-dolphins-from-solomon-islands/</link>
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		<title>Robber Generations I &#8211; The Case of Great Whales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/01/robber-generations-i-the-case-of-great-whales/</link>
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		<title>On the road to the Algarve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I&#8217;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&#8217;ll stay with Sidney&#8217;s son, Tim Holt, also a good buddy, very kind for letting me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/01/on-the-road-to-the-algarve/</link>
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		<title>The [bloody] Cove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fisrt time I saw footage of this film, was at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in Chile, 2008. I also had the chance of meeting some of the people involved in the making, Louie Psihoyos and Joe Chisholm, from Ocean Preservation Society (OPS).
I was astonished, dismayed, and angry, by all the footage, and some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/01/the-bloody-cove/</link>
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		<title>A importância dos “oceanários” na conservação dos oceanos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/01/a-importancia-dos-%e2%80%9coceanarios%e2%80%9d-na-conservacao-dos-oceanos/</link>
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		<title>7.º Campeonato Europeu de Jiu-Jitsu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O Complexo Desportivo do Casal Vistoso irá receber a maior prova de Jiu-Jitsu no velho continente nos próximos dias 28, 29, 30 e 31 de Janeiro de 2010.

Informações e inscrições em http://www.cbjj.com.br/inscricaoeuro10.htm
CURSO DE REGRAS
Está previsto um curso sobre regras de jiu-jitsu no dia anterior ao evento.
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		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/01/7-%c2%ba-campeonato-europeu-de-jiu-jitsu/</link>
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		<title>Palestras por cientistas eminentes &#8211; Lectures by eminent scientists at the University of Algarve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2010/01/palestras-por-cientistas-eminentes-lectures-by-eminent-scientists-at-the-university-of-algarve/</link>
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		<title>1º Workshop SUSTAINAMICS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 Ambiente e [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2009/12/1%c2%ba-workshop-sustainamics/</link>
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		<title>END OF THE LINE &#8211; 2048!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
Then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2009/12/end-of-the-line-2048/</link>
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		<title>The End of Whaling in the Southern Ocean (?!?!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frangoncalves.com/2009/12/the-end-of-whaling-in-the-southern-ocean/</link>
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