Tomorrow at 11:30, the Madeira Whale Museum will receive the Mayor of Machico, Hugo Marques, and the councillor for the Environment, Alberto Olim.
The mayors will learn about Greenpeace’s research and development project, funded by the Dutch Post Code Lottery, as part of a broader funding package to stop the deepwater mining industry before it starts drilling, states the centre.
Greenpeace’s collaboration with the Madeira Whale Museum focuses on the development of autonomous drifting hydrophones for the detection and recording of cetacean sounds. “This strategic partnership allows for the testing and development of cutting-edge equipment that is key to deepening our understanding of cetaceans: their behaviour and their exposure to the impacts of human activities on the oceans, including the emerging threat posed by deep-sea mining activities, with unknown consequences for our oceans.”
It should be noted that “Greenpeace has a long history of conducting and supporting scientific research from its ships, being an environmental activism organisation focused on science. The opportunity to work with the Science Unit of the Madeira Whale Museum is based on many years of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (MAP); studies of cetaceans carried out by Greenpeace around the world, from Antarctica to the Arctic. This collaboration will provide additional tools for cetacean researchers around the world, who will have access to the equipment design, as it will be made available via open source,” revealed the Museum.
Samantha Gannon
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