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Dave Currey (born 1953) is a British environmentalist, writer and photographer. A minister's son, he was born in Sussex in the UK and brought up in London.〔"Green Gumshoes" by David Day, ''Sunday Times Magazine'', 17 June 1990〕 He gained a BA in Photographic Arts in 1976〔To Save An Elephant by Allan Thornton and Dave Currey, ''Doubleday'', 1991 ISBN 0-385-40111-6〕 following a passion in communicating visually. In 1976, following another passion, he walked 1,000 miles across Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming to help raise awareness of conservation issues for the World Wildlife Fund.〔 On this journey his photographs, radio and television interviews were his introduction to a world of media co-operation that would steer his next thirty years in environmental activism.〔 In 1979 he volunteered as a photographer on board the Greenpeace ship ''Rainbow Warrior'' during its Icelandic anti-whaling campaign〔''Time Europe'', 9 July 1979〕 where he first met Allan Thornton, Greenpeace's director at the time. In 1983, while he was working in public relations photography and teaching, Thornton persuaded him to join another anti-whaling ship, "Balaenoptera". With Jennifer Lonsdale, another Greenpeace veteran, they carried out undercover work in the Norwegian port of Vado, posing as journalists to gain entry to whaling factories. They were able to truthfully insist they were not working for Greenpeace as the factory workers feared, but knew it was unwise to state they were on an independent environmental activist ship. The campaign was incredibly successful resulting in a two-thirds reduction in whaling quotas and huge embarrassment for the Norwegian government.〔〔"How it all began", article by Dave Currey in EIA 25 years book, ''EIA'' 2009 ISBN 0-9540768-7-7〕 From 1978 to 1986 he often contributed to ''Wildlife'' magazine and later when it became ''BBC Wildlife'', for a while being their "roving naturalist" to places such as the Everglades National Park,〔"Exploring the Everglades, by Dave Currey, ''Wildlife'', April 1981〕 Yellowstone National Park,〔"Yellowstone" by Dave Currey, ''Wildlife Magazine'', July 1982〕 and Baja California, Mexico.〔"Whales – from Brighton to Baja" by Dave Currey, ''Wildlife Magazine'', July 1981〕 He also acted as a book and television reviewer for the magazine. His nature photography was widely used during this period and he was described as "one of the new breed of naturalist photographers, with a commitment to conservation and the style of a photojournalist."〔"Natural Selection", ''What Camera Weekly'', 20 March 1982〕 == The Environmental Investigation Agency == In 1984 he travelled to the Danish Faroe Islands with Jennifer Lonsdale (née Gibson) to document the world's largest whale kill – at that time over 2000 pilot whales.〔Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands, an ''EIA Report'', Currey and Gibson, 1985〕 On return, together with Allan Thornton they established and became directors of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).〔 They believed there was room for an organisation that gathered documentary evidence of issues which would form the basis of a campaign as well as provide materials for the media.〔Interview with Dave Currey, "Thena" ''Spiegel TV'' Jan 1997〕 Throughout most of EIA's history he acted as its senior investigator operating undercover all over the world.〔"Private Eyes", ''Radio Times'', 25–31 March 1995〕 He started as EIA's campaigns director and when Thornton briefly returned to Greenpeace in 1986, took over as executive director until 1995. During this time he fronted many campaigns, co-authoring an account of the ivory investigation with Allan Thornton in their book "To Save An Elephant".〔 After 1995 he remained on the board and on staff and concentrated on building new campaigns, most notably to protect the Indian tiger (1995–1999)〔"India trip 1995", Currey, an ''EIA Internal Report'', 1995〕 and then rainforests in Indonesia (1999–2007). He was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Medal by the Animal Welfare Institute with Allan Thornton in 1990 for their work protecting elephants and dolphins.〔(Schweitzer Medalists )〕 EIA was awarded the Global 500 Roll of Honor by UNEP for "outstanding contributions to the protection of the environment" in 2001.〔http://www.eia-international.org/cgi/news/news.cgi?t=template&a=299〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dave Currey (environmentalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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