Collaborations
Alessandro De Maddalena has collaborated with numerous research institutes, including Associação Portuguesa para o Estudo e Conservação de Elasmobrânquios (APECE) (from 1998), Image Gallery in the website of Florida Museum of Natural History (1999-2003), Manati e Aquanaude - CD-ROM "La scoperta del litorale Mediterraneo" (1999), Marine Biology Station of Piran / National Institute of Biology Ljubljana (from 2000), ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research (2000-2007), Shark Research Committee (from 2000), WildAid - Shark Conservation Program (2001), FishBase's website (from 2002), Natal Sharks Board (2002), National Museum of Natural History in Prague (from 2002), Necton (from 2003), Marbena (2004), Global Shark Attack File (from 2005), Sharkproject (from 2007), Ailerons (from 2007).
Alessandro De Maddalena has worked as referee for the following scientific journals: Acta Adriatica, Animal Conservation, Annales - Series historia naturalis, Cybium, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of the Marine Biological Association, Periodicum Biologorum.
Alessandro De Maddalena has also been a consultant to many popular magazines and newspapers including National Geographic Italia (the Italian edition of National Geographic Magazine), Immersed, Focus, La Macchina del Tempo, Österreich, Berliner Kurier, America Oggi, Gente, Corriere della Sera, Il Giorno, La Prealpina.
As a writer, he contributed articles to many magazines, published in Italy, France, Germany, USA, New Zealand, Slovakia, Spain, Slovenia, Holland, Portugal and Switzerland (see Publications).
He has also been featured as a shark expert in various television and radio programs (RAI and MEDIASET).
In 2007, Alessandro De Maddalena with Sean Van Sommeran and Wolfgang Leander, created the "Manifesto for Immediate Worldwide Shark Conservation Actions", to ask governments for protection of endangered shark species, a ban on shark finning, management of fisheries, control of trade for shark products and investment into research on sharks to better assess stock status. This document has been signed by 140 shark specialists of the world. Brian May (right), guitarist of Queen, and Paul Rodgers (left), lead singer of Queen + Paul Rodgers (and also of Free and Bad Company), joined Alessandro De Maddalena (middle) to urge the governments of all nations to stop shark slaughter.
Photo ©: Brad Gregory.