We are celebrating the award of the European Cetacean Society (ECS) conservation award for 2013 The following is the speech given by WDC’s friend and colleague Mark Simmonds. “There is amongst us here today a quiet, modest and altogether rather unassuming person who is also somehow simply by their presence able to add a certain…
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