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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Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.
religion respect
I don't have a religion, but I respect them.
cell holding
I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.
people
I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.
people worldwide
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
excessive high machinery thus valued
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
ignore media
That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.
biggest predator
The biggest predator of fish like cod is other fish - and seals keep fish like that in check.
industry japanese whaling
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
condemn corporate crew hands law taking
There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.
endangered extremism sanctuary targeting violation whale whales
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.
laws opposed point revolves
I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.
earthquake eruption mount nature seen terrible thus
I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.
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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.