Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Paul Franklin Watsonis a marine wildlife conservation and an environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation. He is a citizen of Canada and the United States...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 December 1950
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
facts crime
The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
thinking legacy
I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."
disappointment thinking promise
I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
animal wimps purpose
They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.
animal pigs sharks
Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.
violence commit
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing.
cat animal together
North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.
animal puffins chickens
Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
animal ice hunters
Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.
drama communication law
It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.
jobs fighting animal
Back in 1980, whale watching surpassed whaling as an industry. Now it's worth about four times as much. Whale watching provides far, far more jobs to people than whaling ever did. Whale watching has become an ally in the fight to end whaling.
years paper peers
They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.
hypocrite planets being-a-hypocrite
Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.
whales
All of the great whales are endangered.