SEA SHEPHERD TIME CAPSULE

I will be placing a sealed Time Capsule on Scott Island in the remote Ross Sea near Antarctica in December. Send me a postcard, a photo or a business card saying save the whales or saying what whales mean to you. This is a message to the future from people who care for the whales and our oceans. Send along donation of any amount to help cover our fuel for our voyage to intercept and shut down illegal Japanese whaling activities. Send to Sea Shepherd Time Capsule P.O. Box 2616, Friday Harbor, Washington, USA 98250. In Canada send to P.O. Box 48446, Vancouver, B.C. V7X 1A2, Canada. In Australia our address is Suite 7, 288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065. In the the U.K. send to BCM-Bass, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, U.K. WCIN 3XX. Your concern for the whales and our ocean will be preserved in this unique Time Capsule for centuries to come. Send ASAp, we depart for Antarctica at the end of November 2007.

LUSH and Sea Shepherd with Alice Newstead as she makes a courageous protest to save sharks.

Al Jazeera Interview August 13th, 2008 Part I

Al Jazeera Interview - Part II

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Captain Paul Watson
Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1977)
Founding Director, Greenpeace Foundation (1972)Founding Member of Greenpeace International (1979)

I am currently the President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a position I have held since 1977

I established the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as an organization to directly intervene to uphold international conservation law. It is not a protest organization. We intervene against illegal activities in accordance with the guidelines of the United Nations World Charter for Nature.

Today I command two ships. The 1,000 ton, 62 meter fast patrol boat "Steve Irwin" and the long range 50 meter, 655 ton trawler ice strengthened "Farley Mowat". Both ships operate internationally to intervene against illegal activities that exploit marine wildlife and habitats. We have also supplied a 3rd ship the "Sirenian" as a full time patrol boat for the Galapagos Island Marine Reserve. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society works in partnership with the Galapagos National Park to intercept poachers in the marine reserve

My nautical training came from service with the Canadian Coast Guard and from working on Norwegian and Swedish merchant marine vessels. I was the 1st Officer on the original Greenpeace whale campaign voyages in 1975 and 1976. I have extensive experience on all the world's oceans including ice navigation and weathering severe weather conditions. I have commanded over 250 voyages as Master and I've never had a crewmember injured, a record I am most proud of.

I was one of the founding members and directors of the Greenpeace Foundation. My Greenpeace lifetime membership number is 007. I am also a founding member of Greenpeace International in 1979

My academic background involved majoring in communications and linguistics at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I have lectured extensively at universities around the world, and I was a professor of Deep Ecology at Pasadena College of Design from 1990 through to 1994. I was also an instructor in UCLA's Honors Program for 1998 and 1999. Currently, I am a registered speaker with the Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau of Boston, and I regularly give presentations at colleges and universities in the United States, Australia and Europe and at special events throughout world.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is currently involved in opposing illegal whaling activities in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary by the Japanese whaling fleet and illegal whaling by Iceland, Norway and the Faeroe Islands in the North Atlantic.

Sea Shepherd has been involved since 200 in a partnership program with the Galapagos National Park to patrol and intervene against poachers, especially shark poachers. We are partnered with the Ecuadorian National Police to investigate poaching operations. We are also opposing the dolphin death drives in Japan and the seal slaughter off the coast of Eastern Canada.

The full outline of Sea Shepherd activities can be found on the Sea Shepherd website at www.Seashepherd.org including a place to download applications to volunteer for crew on campaigns.

There is nothing more satisfying than a sunken whaler. The latest whaler to be sent to the bottom is the killing machine Willassen Senior that sank "under mysterious circumstances on August 30th 2007 in the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. This is the fifth whaler sunk in Norway since 1992. Pictures below

Achievements for 2007 include the Sea Shepherd raids in partnership with the Ecuadorian National Environmental Police that resulted in the confiscation of 45,000 shark fins and 96,000 sea cucumbers. We arrested over a dozen members and exposed the Ecuadorian shark fin mafia. In July the Vice-President of Ecuador presented me with the Amazon Peace Prize. We were also presented with the flag of the Five Nation of Iroquis Confederacy and registration of our ships as the only two ocean going ships flying the Iroquis flag

In January 2008, my crew and I onboard the Steve Irwin shut down illegal Japanese whaling activities in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary for three weeks. We are returning to harass the Japanese whaling fleet in February and March. We have already costs the Japanese fleet millions of dollars in losses.

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Bailing Out My Crew in Nova Scotia with Doubloons.
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