Our threatened oceans
Many of us have either flown over the vastness of the ocean, or sailed upon its surface. I myself have fished so far from land that it is out of …
The Russian roulette of travelling out of and into the USA
The term Russian roulette is the practice of loading a bullet into one chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at one’s …
Conservation Buzzwords Demystified
Words tossed around nowadays by environmentalists include, of course, environment, ecology, ecosystem, sustainability, resilience, biodiversity, and global warming among others, so let’s look at a few. Our environment is …
What, exactly, is ecotourism?
I imagine many of us, when we think of ecotourism, think of long hot boring walks through deteriorating old places, primitive conditions, lectures, perhaps museums, all fairly intimidating effort …
Discovery Bay – Present, Past, Future
I sit on my verandah, it is about 10:00 am, a gentle cool breeze wafting, and I gaze at the sea — prussian blue, ultramarine and turquoise, studded here …
The laws, or lack of laws, that have led to the Discovery Bay debacle
I am neither scientist, lawyer nor scholar, and therefore ask you to forgive errors and omissions in what is an attempt to illuminate or describe the legal …
Why do so many people love to visit captive dolphins?
By Erica Hamilton In the middle of all the controversy about the approved captive dolphin facility in Discovery Bay, I read a comment by a member of our …