Protecting the environment with intelligence
The new documentary Hunt for the Whalers, following EIA undercover investigators in Iceland and Japan, makes its UK premiere on Nat Geo Wild this Thursday, December 15, at 8pm; our visuals specialist Paul Redman was one of the team being filmed and here he reflects on almost of decade of campaigning and investigating in Japan. [...]
Durban was hot and steamy yesterday – it’s getting on for high summer in the Southern Hemisphere – and I spent the best part of the afternoon in a glorified prefab (aka the “EU Pavilion”). COP17 has been mercifully light on air conditioning, a huge relief after the two weeks spent shivering in Cancún last [...]
I joined the Global Ocean Race teams in Cape Town during the stop over after the first leg of the event. It was a good opportunity to talk to the sailors about the work we are doing with them and the race, and to see what information they had collected. After a well-earned rest and [...]
Last Sunday night, flash floods killed eight people in and around the city of Durban and left thousands homeless. Just one in a series of recent extreme weather events here in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province, it probably wouldn’t have crossed most people’s radar screen were it not for the fact that thousands of foreign delegates [...]
December has arrived and with it, for millions around the world, comes the annual wallet-slimming slog of Christmas shopping. Given the ailing state of many economies, a lot of people will be feeling the pinch this year and wondering how they’re going to manage to find meaningful gifts for loved ones which won’t break the [...]
When not overseeing EIA’s library of somewhere in the region of 30,000 images and about 5,000 mini DV tapes of footage (which equates to about 300,000 hours of footage), or keeping tabs on all the various undercover cameras and other pieces of kit, I sometimes get the chance to indulge a more creative side. I [...]