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
carried shoulders
My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
work
I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
crew refuse shepherd trade
The Sea Shepherd crew is doing what governments should be doing, but refuse to do themselves, because of the threats of trade retaliation from Japan.
greenpeace left since whale
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
aid basically foreign gives legal looks taiwan though
Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal.
domestic house seals
Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.
common ideals respect separated united
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
oceans planet wipe
If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
continue crew defend patrol shepherd whale
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
The only thing scarier than Godzilla is Godzilla's lawyers.
oceans
The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
exposing government subvert truth wikileaks
I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I see WikiLeaks doing is exposing the truth.
people
Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.