The ErichHoyt.com Blog

The killing power of Navy sonar

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:10:01 +0100

The US National Marine Fisheries Service has recently issued its proposed rule under which the US Navy would be given free reign over 70% of the world ocean to test and use its very loud, low frequenc

Ship2ship oil transfers revisited: good news!

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:26:24 +0100

On a bright Saturday in late April, I met up with the Scottish Green Party, local surfers, the Scottish Seabird Centre, and more than 100 North Berwick residents for a rally against the ill conceived

The Power of Film

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:10:28 +0100

Almost a year ago, in late spring 2006, the filmmaker and conservationist Jean-Michel Cousteau was invited to the White House to show his film about the remote, untouched and as yet to be fully protec

Chilean dolphins & salmon farms

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:23 +0000

Three days with Nomads of the Sea in the southern fjords of Chile leaves me with images of Magellanic penguins, roaring southern sea lions, glaciers, windswept impenetrable forests, and the meandering

Deciding the fate of the world's whales

Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:17:54 +0100

And so, the Japanese government has finally managed to recruit a majority at the annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meetings, held this June in St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. The pro