*Founder of the Sea Shepherd Society

*Harrassed and arrested by a half-dozen countries for his activism

*Star of Animal Planet’s WHALE WARS

*Co-Founder of the Greenpeace Foundation

Over 40 years ago, Captain Paul Watson established the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as an anti-poaching organization. That organization is now a global movement, registered in over 40 nations and operating 14 ships with anti-poaching partnerships with Ecuador (Galapagos) Gabon, Liberia, Sao Tome, Tanzania, Mexico, Dominica, Italy and Peru.

He continues his fight for the rights of our oceans’ inhabitants from illegal whaling vessels from Europe to the Southern Ocean, seal hunters in Canada and shark finners in Central America.

20:08 GMT +11, December 26, 2008. The M/V Steve Irwin has a close encounter with the Kaiko Maru, a spotter ship in the Japanese whaling fleet. Sea Shepherd crew members throw butyric acid (an organic, non-toxic “stink bomb”) onto the deck of the Kaiko Maru.
Photo: Eric Cheng / Sea Shepherd Conservation Society