Durante o mês de Fevereiro conduzi uma investigação sobre o comércio de vida selvagem através da Internet em Portugal, o chamado e-commerce. O tráfico internacional de animais selvagens é estimado em vários bilhões de Euros anualmente – um mercado negro que rivaliza a dimensão do comércio internacional de drogas e armas. Anualmente, milhares de elefantes [...]
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Killing with Keystrokes – Portugal Update
During February I conducted an Investigation on the Wildlife trade in Portugal via Internet, the so called, e-commerce. International trafficking in wildlife is estimated to reach well into the billions of Euros annually – a black market rivaling the size of the international trade in illegal drugs and weapons. Every year thousands of elephants are [...]
A importância dos “oceanários” na conservação dos oceanos
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 [...]
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 [...]
IWC Intersessional – Day 2
Second day of proceedings started with the discussions of the Agenda Item 4: REPORT OF THE INTERSESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE GROUP (ICG) ON ISSUES RELATED TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (SC). A panoply of affairs related to the SC presented by Greg Donovan, Countries started asking the Commission to be able to provide reports of the SC well [...]
IWC Intersessional – Day 1
It was a night with little sleep (about 3 hours) before I drove into Lisbon and my friend Susana took me to the airport. With a stopover in Madrid I got into Rome Fiumicino Airport around 19:00. Then took a taxi to the Hotel Santa Prisca where I’m staying. Dropped things there and went out [...]
Lately …
Lately I’m going through changes, and some things in my life what were fermenting and slowly developing finally started to materialize. This year I’ll keep working for the same 3 organization as a Consultant like up to now. They are the International Fund for Animal Welfare, PEW Charitable Trusts, and Global Ocean. It will start [...]
PEW meeting + IWC scandal
Last Friday I met with Alex Garcia, an associate of the Varda Group that is organizing the PEW meeting in Lisbon, and I’ve passed from an invited observer to a local coordinator. Nice! The PEW meeting comes in a time where much discussion is abide related to the IWC and I belive it will be [...]
MMIX
Entering a new year is always strange, maybe because nothing really weird happens, it is like one minute we are still here and suddenly we are there. 2008 was quite a challenge for me almost from the beginning, at all levels I tend to drive my living: Personal, Professional and Emotional. Personally: My house was [...]