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MEDITERRANEAN CONSERVATION NEWS |
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VOICES FROM THE INLAND OCEAN |
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About Us
Mediterranean Conservation News is managed by Giovanni Bearzi, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and Eleonora de Sabata, who serve as Editors for the News section.
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Giovanni Bearzi (born in Venice, Italy, in 1963) holds a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, with a thesis on Mediterranean coastal dolphins. He has been carrying out and coordinating dolphin research projects since 1986, particularly in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. He founded and directed for a decade a dolphin research and conservation programme in Croatia, which was awarded the 'Henry Ford European Conservation Award' as best European project overall. Giovanni has always tried to combine his scientific work with public awareness and education to support marine conservation, and he has supervised a number of students and young researchers. He strives to integrate his interests, including design, computer media, science and ethics, into new ways of communicating concern for the ongoing loss of marine biodiversity. Since 1990 he has been a Board Member of the Tethys Research Institute and in 2000 he became the President of Tethys, a position he still holds. Between 2002 and 2006 he taught a course on Cetacean Conservation at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Venice, Italy. He is founder and coordinator of the Cetacean Alliance, a not-for-profit international network of non-governmental organizations committed to preserving marine biodiversity and reducing human impact on cetacean populations. In 2001 he was awarded a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship. |
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Eleonora de Sabata (born in Rome, Italy, in 1966) is a science photo-journalist and has been writing about the sea since 1989. A consultant on marine topics for the TV (including BBC and Discovery Channel), she has published on magazines worldwide, including the National Geographic Magazine. She has a keen interest in public awareness and environmental education and has written a series of children books on marine life, as well as travel books for divers. Eleonora is active in scientific research on sharks in the Mediterranean Sea (MedSharks). She is a member of SIBM (the Italian Society of Marine Biology) and of AES (the American Elasmobranch Society). She is a consultant for the Shark Alliance, a coalition of 50 international NGOs for the conservation of sharks.
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Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara (born in Venice, Italy, in 1948) holds a Ph.D. in marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with a thesis on the systematics and ecology of manta rays in the Gulf of California, where he discovered and described a new species. In 1986 he spearheaded the creation of the Italian national cetacean stranding network (Centro Studi Cetacei), which he coordinated until 1990. In 1986 he funded the Tethys Research Institute, which he directed for 10 years; in 1991 he proposed the creation of the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals, which was established in 1999 by Italy, France and Monaco. He is now honorary president of Tethys. In 1996 Giuseppe was nominated president of the Central Institute for Applied Marine Research (ICRAM) in Rome, where he served for seven years. From 1999 to 2003 he served as Commissioner or Alternate Commissioner for Italy at the International Whaling Commission. He chaired the European Cetacean Society from 1993 to 1997. His current activities include: regional coordinator for the Mediterranean, WCPA Marine (since 2000); deputy chair, SSC Cetacean Specialist Group (since 1991); member, SSC Shark Specialist Group (since 1993); chair, Scientific Committee of the CMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS; since 2002). Giuseppe currently teaches a course on the conservation of marine biodiversity at the University of Milan. |
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