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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘IWC’
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 [...]
Chile & IWC 2009
Frenetic, stressful, inflammatory debates and very unproductive, the old same! This was the ambience surrounding the 60th Meeting of the International Whaling Commission, (IWC) hosted by the Government of Chile and held at Santiago. After several decades of little change in terms of making the IWC a body that regulates properly whaling, it is sliding [...]
Bolivian Passport
History especially…. That’s the topic I most like to read before departing to a new trip. This time I’m going back to South America; and why history? I like to go back in space and revive the birth of nations that allows to a better understanding of the current society. However, I also like to [...]
Sao Tome and Principe (part II)
I’ve returned from Sao Tome and Principe (STP) last Thursday, where I gave a presentation at a conference about Biodiversity and Ecotourism. The title I presented was “The non-lethal use of Cetaceans – a multidisciplinary perspective”. It basically covered the uses cetaceans can withstand nowadays (whaling is not one of them), recommendations to the STP’s [...]
Sao Tome and Principe (part I)
During March last year (2007) the international community that struggles to safeguard the place of cetaceans on this planet was alarmed by the possibility of Sao Tome and Principe join Japan in their loop-hole inside the International Whaling Commission (IWC). News of this kept coming and so Global Ocean (an UK based Charity) decided to [...]
Talk at the University of Peniche: International Whaling Commission – History Corruption and Possible Solutions
Talk given at the University of Peniche, Portugal. The theme of the caucus was “emerge and submerged”. There were various talks around different subjects, such as fisheries, artificial aquariums, genetics, animals affected by petroleum, and 3 speeches on marine mammals. I was presenting such a topic, “The International Whaling Commission – History, Corruption and Possible [...]
Arrested and Deported
That is why I like travelling! The uncertainty of what we will find, by leaving behind a frontier and entering a new realm… I almost didn’t get to St. Kitts to start with; Melanie (Global Ocean) forgot to pay my ticket and I was left stranded in Lisbon , but only for a day. On [...]
Observer at IWC 58th Meeting (St. Kitts)
I’ll be at St. Kitts and Nevis from the 15th of June to the 22nd for the IWC meeting. This came after an invitation from Global Ocean (represented by Melanie Salmon) and the efforts from Dan Morast, Leslie Busby , and Sidney Holt . It is an honour for me to receive such call and [...]
IWC – International Whaling Commission
The environmental movement is facing one of its biggest-ever reverses, over one of its most cherished causes: Save The Whale. The leading pro-whaling nation, Japan, with a remarkable diplomatic “coup d’état” is self-assured to clutch control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), formed in order to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and [...]