Richard Chesher

12 Steps to More Giant Clams Author: Richard Chesher, Ph.D. Organization: Marine Research Foundation Source: South Pacific Aquaculture Development Project, FAO of the United Nations Date: May 1991 The Falevai Community Giant Clam Sanctuary In 1988, the people of Vava'u in the Kingdom of Tonga set up The Falevai Community Giant Clam Sanctuary . It was located in the central island group of Vava'u and had 70 Smooth Giant Clams and 70 Rough Giant Clams. Eighteen months later, large numbers of young Giant Clams were found on the reefs. In 1990, even more young clams were found on reefs of the Central Island Group. His Royal Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV presented the village of Falevai with an award for the Best Community Giant Clam Sanctuary during the September 1990 Vava'u Agriculture Show. Encouraged by Falevai's success, ten other Vava'u villages requested assistance from the Fisheries Department. In 1990, three more villages joined Falevai...

  Vote for Dolphin Freedom The Lion Park Safari TV Dolphin Interview Sydney Australia, 1981 At the top of the stairs from the Bateau Chateau a gigantic, chauffeur driven, black Mercedes Limousine from the Willosy TV Talk show arrives to take me out to the Lion Park Safari to film a confrontation between Bulley and me and the Dolphins.  I get in and off we go to the Lion Park Safari. I sit alone in the back seat and, all the way out through the used car lots and the cow pastures in the highlands west of Sydney, I agonize about what "The Wanderer" is doing. The Oracle was certainly right about a surprise waiting for me on Saturday. Now I've got to follow the rest of its advice to the letter. The Mercedes glides into the parking area of the Lion Park Safari and I look around. Surprise, surprise, surprise, the demonstration Estelle promised for today, is not happening. Just the usual Saturday crowd wandering lethargically around. It turns out I am the demonstration, just litt...