Mokens: the sea gypsies.
Dubbed the « nomads of the sea », the Moken community, settled in the Ko Surin islands in the north of Thailand, is trying to find balance between the nomad identity and tourism, traditional labor and natural heritage preservation.
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Parution Italie - PRIVATE - The Shipwrecks of the night by Michel Lozano
The farmers of the sea in Bali
Indonesia. Bali. April 2007. On the riverbeds of the Island of Nusa Lembongan, throughout the night of the full moon, the entire population is dedicated to the harvest of seaweed. Under the protection of the gods and the stars, lit by lanterns or homemade torches, men and women cultivate the sea.
Les promesses de la mer
L’océan, nouvelle frontière de la médecine. Cancers, malaria, infection virale, maladie d’Alzeimer, arthrite.. Le potentiel de l’océan pour produire de nouveaux médicaments afin de traiter ces maladies n’a jamais offert autant de possibilités. La faune et la flore marines contiennent des secrets biochimiques qui peuvent aider à comprendre les maladies et à la production de traitements. Les bactéries des grandes profondeurs contiennent des nouvelles molécules exploitables pour la biomédecine ou la biotechnologie. Les recherches montrent que le potentiel pharmacetique des organismes marins peut dépasser le potentiel terrestre actuel.
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- Texte et photos Alexis Duclos / LIGHTMEDIATION
- Date Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:16:55 +0100
The slaves of the sea
Thirteen years after the “moratorium” which prevented people from fishing cod in Newfoundland, the flotilla of trawlers fit for sea-fishing has almost completely disappeared. “Grande Hermine”, a 65-meter long trawler began her career in St Pierre and Miquelon on big shoals around 20 years ago. It was the ultimate chapter of an adventure which lasted for over three centuries. The whole history of fishing in Normandy, Brittany, the Basque Country and of course Saint Pierre et Miquelon was built around trawler fishing and their departures for the Newfoundland shoals. The seamen have known for a long time that they are the last representatives of a profession which is doomed. They usually go fishing above the polar circle, in the Barents Sea where the Norwegian coast guards keep them under strict control. There they are fishing, from 12 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, spending two to three months on some of the most hostile seas in the world, attracted by the “white gold” but above all passionate about a job that most of them have been doing since they were teenagers.
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