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
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In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
I'm not interested in culture; I'm interested in the law.
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I'm never horrible to anybody. My problem, and you can ask any of my friends, is that I'm too nice to everybody.
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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.
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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
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Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
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Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.
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Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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Greenpeace has a fast ship that could stop the whalers cold.
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Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.
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I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.