Environmental Info

Lorenzo Perissinotto, Professor of Marine Biology, Zoology and Entomology at Rhodes University, South Africa, in the field discussing species, in particular invertebrates, and their environment. The problem is that the layman generally refers to animals, meaning they are big and hairy, at least the vertebrates, and in the great scheme ...

Lorenzo Perissinotto, Professor of Marine Biology, Zoology and Entomology at Rhodes University, South Africa, briefly talks about fishing and aqua culture.

As it says in the title this video sees Steve Mecinski talk to us about conservation and other subjects including what he does to prevent poaching. There are a big team of poachers that make patrols around the park to check for poachers and even the use of drones to ...

This episode see’s a Concerned Citizen talking to us about how chemical spraying affects people and animals. Stellenbosch and surrounding areas suffers from agricultural drift. The Concerned Citizen tells us that big companies have vineyards right in the town and there is a university experimental farm that has vineyards on the ...

On the topic of fish crime, we hear from Mr Jon Whitlow from the international transport workers international and he enlightens us about how the media try to hide certain topics from us and bring others to light. Fish crime has been an issue for many years and attention must ...

In this video we hear from Kristin Gunnasdottir V. Kistowski from Fish-I Africa and she is telling us about how laws regarding fishing didn’t happen the past. There has been illegal fishing for many years and they have been allowed to expand their operations and this is what Fish-I Africa ...

This panel discussion sees Marcus Asner from the natural resource fraud & corruption at Arnold & Porter LLP in the USA and he is speaking to us about fish crime. Initially he tells us that if we automated the export data that was uploaded to a computer it would close ...

This video sees Mr Marcus Asner who continues to talk to us about the extent of fish crime. Mr Marcus Asner was a federal prosecutor and at the symposium of Cape Town in 2015 spoke to us about the Lacey act. The Lacey Act of 1900 in a nutshell is a conservation law in ...

This video from the fish crime series at the symposium in Cape Town and sees a panel discussion again on fish crime. The speaker Bernard Liedemann (the directorate, monitoring & surveillance from DAFF – SA) talk to us about a multi approach on the high seas.   Mr Bernard Liedmann ...

Fish Crime Symposium, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 20 – Bernard Liedemann from DAFF SA – Whistleblowers, Co-operation with US, Maritime Crime, Organised crime It started with civil society. In other words, they dealt with an informant in this case. The ...