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
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.
oceans
The oceans are the last free place on the planet.
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.
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.
common ideals respect separated united
Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.
domestic house seals
Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.
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.
greenpeace left since whale
I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.
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.
work
I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.
carried shoulders
My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.
marine stop
We need to stop flying, stop driving cars and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles.
arrogant human nobody unless
I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.
oppose takes threatens wants
Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.