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PRESS RELEASE: MICHAEL BAILEY JOINS THE CAUSE AS ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT & CONSULTING PRODUCER






MICHAEL BAILEY


JOINS THE CAUSE




ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT / CONSULTING PRODUCER

Described as "one of the foremost eco-warriors of our times" according to Rex Weyler, a founding member of Greenpeace, along with Paul Watson, Patrick Moore, David McTaggart and others. He supervised the original Greenpeace flagship 'Rainbow Warrior'.



THE CLIMATE SUMMIT


Presently serving as Operations Director for The Climate Summit, which uses interactive videoconferencing technologies provided by Cisco Systems Inc., Bailey conducts presentations and educates the world public on the growing issue of climate change and global warming. He is an authorized presenter under The Climate Project founded by Al Gore who trained Bailey in the art of presentations pertaining to climate issues, ocean acidification and greenhouse gas emissions.



COP10 Convention on Biological Diversity


Bailey serves on the organizing committee for the Japan-based COP10 Non-Governmental group, which is a coordinating body for numerous organizations attending the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity COP10 conference being convened in Nagoya, Japan in October of 2010.



Save the Dolphin and anti-whaling campaigns


He is known for his campaigns against the whaling and dolphin hunting industries but also U.S. Navy's use of sonar and is credited with developing and popularizing the concept of a Cetacean Nation (1993) with The Human-Dolphin Foundation founder, counter culture hero and pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness Dr John C. Lilly advocated by Jacques Cousteau. He has also coordinated rescues of beached whales.
Now a conservationist and adventure program producer, he retains a special interest in Cetacea, Bailey joined Greenpeace in 1975 and volunteered to pilot a Zodiac inflatable boat in front of a Russian harpoon ship, resulting in iconic images of the whalers firing 90 mm harpoon cannons at activists that were to establish Greenpeace in the public consciousness. Actions earning him the nickname "Zodiac Mike" or "Generalissimo".


The Cove film


Bailey is currently promoting Louie Psihoyos's documentary, The Cove, with Ric O'Barry and the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition having previously organized projects in Japan with EIji Fujiwara and Sakae Hemme of The ELSA Nature Conservancy, a Tokyo-based group of marine activists, which in 1997 which led to a milestone result causing the Japanese authorities to release dolphins due to local activist pressures.



International Whaling Commission


As an official observer at the International Whaling Commission, Bailey has played a major part in the raising of public opinion and government support against the whaling industry.



Kuwait Wildlife Campaign


Featured on the cover of an National Geographic magazine, Earthtrust was the first environmental organization in Kuwait following the 1991 Gulf War with Michael Bailey and Rick Thorpe assessing the environmental damage cause by the burning in Kuwait oil fields of Kuwait shortly after the end of the Gulf War in 1991 while the war contained following requests of the Kuwaiti royal family. They subsequently formed the Kuwait Environmental Information Center and deployed oil barriers to protect wetlands and took action resulting in the fires being extinguished more quickly which was memorialized in the internationally broadcast Earthtrust documentary Hell on Earth and a five-part Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series.



Food Campaigns


Bailey has also campaigned against food irradiation and was a director of the Conservation Council of Hawai'i.



Other accomplishments


In 2005, he was awarded Anuenue Award by the Conservation Council of Hawai'i for being the 'volunteer of the year' for his dedication to "creating a better world for wildlife and future generations" by documenting plastic pollution, campaigning to protect the Arctic from oil drilling and for working with indigenous peoples such as the Gwich'in and Inupiaq; including organizing the Arctic Film Festival.


Filmography
  • Oil on Ice , International Documentary Association’s 2004 Pare Lorentz Award for Democratic Sensibility and Activist Spirit. A Sierra Club Production
  • ‘Great Adventures’ 1999- 2005. Producer, on-camera Host about mountaineering expeditions to the Antarctica.
  • 'Wild Rescues' for Animal Planet TV Series.
  • 'Effective Microorganisms' weekly television series



Biography


  • 'The Greenpeace story' by Michael Harold Brown, Prentice-Hall (University of Michigan) Canada, 1989
  • 'Men and Whales' by Richard Ellis. Robert Hale, (University of Virginia) 1992


References

  • Souls in the Sea: Dolphins, Whales, and Human Destiny by Scott Taylor, Frog Books (February 21, 2003) ISBN 1-58394-071-5
  • Greenpeace: how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed by Rex Weyler, page 580
  • Greenpeace Foundation History
  • The Cetacean Nation: A proposal by The Human-Dolphin Foundation, Maui Hawaii, USA Cetacean Nation Proposal
  • The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography By John Cunningham Lilly, Ronin Publishers, 1996 ISBN: 0914171720
  • The presence of whales: contemporary writings on the whale' by Frank Stewart. Alaska Northwest Books, 1995 (University of California) ISBN 0-88240-464-4
  • Balance Seas Report
  • Mystics and Mechanics, Peacework Magazine
  • Greenpeace: how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed by Rex Weyler, page 423
  • 'Warriors of the rainbow: a chronicle of the Greenpeace movement' by Robert Hunter, Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-03-043741-5 page 404
  • Help Dolphins Survive
  • Japanese Activists Expose Cetacean Slaughter by Nathan LaBudde, Earth Island Journal Winter 1996-97 A Whale of a Business, PBS Documentary
  • Whalesong: The Story of Hawaii and the Whales by MacKinnon Simpson and Robert B. Goodman, Beyond Words Pub. Co., 1990 (University of California
  • Canby, Thomas Y. After the Storm. National Geographic 180:2-32 Aug '91.
  • Is Zapping Food the Answer? by Cliff Rothman. Vegetarian Times, page 12, Dec 1997
  • Kolea Vol 54 Issue 1 Spring Summer 2004 Conservationists Honored for Achievements

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