Brazil’s Greenpeace is running an online petition campaign, aimed at Brazilians, asking the Brazilian government to exercise the maximum diplomatic pressure to obtain the declaration of the Southern Atlantic Whale Sanctuary. In actual fact, it was Brazil who proposed the creation of the sanctuary back in 1999 – it had the backing of the governments [...]
The whale-watching season is on its way on the southern coast of Brazil. The Right Whale Environmental Protection Area goes from Pinheira, south of Florianópolis, to Rincão, and it’s there where most whales gather together. When summer arrives in the southern hemisphere, right whales abandon their traditional feeding grounds, in colder latitudes, and seek the [...]




