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Tony Juniper
has been an environmental campaigner for nearly 20 years. Since 2003 he has been Executive Director of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland and from 2000 has been the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International, the global federation of 68 national Friends of the Earth organisations.
Tony has worked with Friends of the Earth since 1990 and played a prominent role in many of its most high-profile campaigns. He initially led the tropical rainforest campaign.
Tony has worked not only to shift public opinion and government policy but has also been very active in successfully changing the policies and practices of international companies. He is now active in the Friends of the Earth campaign to change UK and international law so as to promote more sustainable companies.
He has worked with children to promote environmental awareness and is experienced in fieldwork (including the Middle-East, Africa and South America).
Dr Sidney Holt
is a British marine scientist who began his career in 1947 at the Fisheries Laboratory in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, working on the dynamics of commercially exploited fish populations; he is co-author of the most widely read book on this subject that has gone through four editions during the 60 years it has been in print. Sidney moved in 1953 to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO), in Rome, where he eventually became Director of its Division of Fisheries Resources, Environment and Operations. He subsequently served as the Secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and of its Marine Sciences Division in Paris. Since his retirement from the UN system Sidney has engaged actively in global efforts to bring an end to commercial whaling, and has served as advisor to several national delegations to the International Whaling Commission as well as to non-governmental organizations. He has held professorial and fellowship positions at the Universities of California, Rhode Island, Malta and Cambridge, UK.
Sidney Holt was one the groups of environmental activists that secured the indefinite moratorium on commercial whaling, in 1982, the designation of the Indian Ocean as a whale sanctuary in 1979, and the similar declaration for the entire Southern Ocean, in 1994. He has won several awards, including the World Wildlife Fund's prized Gold Medal, the Royal Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark, and appointment to the Global 500 of the UN Environment Programme. While retaining his concern for the protection of the whales and the restoration of the Southern Ocean ecosystem, Sidney has recently returned to his original involvement in the management of sea fishing to ensure sustainable food supplies from the sea for future generations. He lives and farms in Umbria, Italy. (Photograph by Tim Holt ©)
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Venetia Hargreaves Allen
graduated from Oxford University in Biological Sciences in 2002 followed by an MSC in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London. Currently she is researching and writing a policy document for the World Fish Centre for the World Trade Organisation negotiators.
In 2004, she filmed and produced conservation films in Indonesia and Kenya for the Brock Initiative. Subjects included campaign films highlighting problems caused by foreign trawlers, environmentally-friendly practices for local communities and general education films about local ecosystems above and below water. She has also worked with Coral Cay Conservation, Aldabra Marine Program, BBC Natural History Research Unit, Diversitas (a global biodiversity initiative co-funded by UNESCO) and the Ecologist Magazine.
Erich Hoyt
has spent more than 30 years working with whales and dolphins and focusing on global marine conservation, especially in the areas of whale watching, marine ecotourism and marine protected areas. Erich is currently Senior Research Fellow with WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, in the UK and helps direct the killer whale study in eastern Russia, a collaboration with young Russian researchers and conservationists. The project recently won the Kluh Prize for Innovation in Science from Germany.
Erich currently sits on the ACCOBAMS scientific committee - a marine mammal conservation agreement for the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Erich's most recent book Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphin and Porpoises (Earthscan, London, 520 pages) has been called the most important book on whale conservation written to date - a grassroots handbook for marine habitat conservation worldwide.
Having written 10 books on cetaceans, Erich is an authority on whale-watching, consulting for WDCS, WWF, Greenpeace and IFAW, and for the British, German and Australian governments. He helped frame the debate within the International Whaling Commission (IWC) through papers and reports for WDCS and IFAW. An American-Canadian dual citizen, Erich currently resides in Scotland.
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