This was an unexpected invitation. To give a lecture at my former High School on my work about cetaceans. The title of the venue was “A escola convida” (School Invitational). For sure that I was very flattered and honoured by such call. Some of my former teachers were present which gave a nice touch to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Whaling’
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 [...]
Japan Give Portugal a Chance!
Yesterday (9th May) we were at the Japanese Embassy demanding the withdrawal of the proposal it has to host the 2009 IWC meeting. Things looked a bit grim to start with; I locked myself out of my car, so I had to highjack my own vehicle, got lost in Lisbon, got stuck in the traffic [...]
A graveyard for Nicaragua
Just arrived from Lisbon and the Nicaraguan Consulate in Cascais. It was a cloudy, yet quite warm day, the morning was spent finishing the last bits of the tails left and around 1100 I departed to Lisbon. The Consulate was quite hard to find, but finally we manage to get hold of it around 1500. [...]
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 [...]