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Greenpeace has started a new campaign against whaling and this time I didn`t learn about it from the press but - thanks to the world wide web - from an e-mail that I got directly from the campaign ship “Experanza”. As a result of the neverending coincidences and developments in life I had several years ago the chance to get to know the London-based photografer Jiri Rezac, who now joined this mission to contribute his skills.

Jiri is not only a nice person, but also the list of countries, he has traveled to, the topics, he has taken pictures for, the variety of languages, he is able to speak and last but not least the list of known media around the world, in which his work has already been published, are so long and fascinating that a short sum-up would simply not do it, and regarding this I would like to point out to the bio on his homepage as well as to that one on the greenpeace campaign blog.

Though he is in my eyes the impersonated adventurer or cosmopolitan and lives a life that many people dream of, from the words in his blog (here, here and here) can be seen that even for somebody like him the current travel is something new and exciting. For several months he will be onboard the “Esperanza” (wikipedia-page|official page of the ship|interactive tour).


The webcam onboard delivers a new picture every 60 seconds.

Not less fascinating is, that todays technique makes it possible to have a mail-conversation with somebody on a moving ship in the middle of the ocean on the other side of the planet. The Esperanza has a webcam that sends a new picture every 60 seconds.

Well, that is it so far. Please take a look at the campaign blog weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/ which in my honest opinion is a great use of modern forms of communication for an important topic. But you should as well consider a visit on Jiri’s page: jirirezac.com. There you can find among other things a detailed monthly documentation of his work from 2001 till 2005 as well as several special projects.

> Greenpeace campaign blog: Blog | RSS-Feed
> Blog by Jiri Rezac: Blog | RSS-Feed

The ones of you, who understand German could as well visit the german blog for the campaign. And if the name “Zwischen Walen und Harpunen” (”Between Whales and harpoons“) is to complicated, just remember the domain “http://195.137.170.166“. ;-)


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  1. Gorgi Zolotovs on September 28, 2008 7:29 am

    eyy
    my names gorgi zolotovs,, from australia

    and im really passionate about trying to elping our world a better place.

    The one thing that really gets to me is animal cruelty ecspecially whaling.

    There is no use of this criminal act.
    What do need to do this for, food what the??

    this is wrong, there a beautiful mammal, that have the same rights as humans and they will eventually get extinct if this keeps happening!

    The people that do this to the whales should take a moment and ask themselves how would they like to tortured and killed.. they wouldnt like that idea at all.

    This is wrong and should stop, together we can all make a difference and stop this, there is more of us that are against it than there is for it.

    Thankyou

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