October 20, 2023 It is amazing that because I made a couple of posts of concern for children, children of Gaza and children of Israel that a few people have accused me of anti-Semitism. This is absurd. I have no animosity, hatred nor anger for Jewish people, never have and I never will. What Hamas did was monstrous but the revenge killing of over a thousand children in Gaza is also monstrous. Being critical of the IDF and of the…
October 19, 2023 Today I had the great honor and pleasure to be part of the official launch of the Sea Shepherd France vessel The WALRUS. This vessel commissioned and custom built for Sea Shepherd France is fast, efficient, and outfitted with cameras to document every action in a campaign. This vessel is named for my lifelong friend David Garrick also known as Walrus. Sadly, David passed away earlier this year on Vancouver Island, Canada. Walrus was an incredible environmental…
October 14, 2023 I intend to throw everything I have at it, even my life if that is what it takes, but it will end. That is a promise! https://bit.ly/48QpeZk
October 13, 2023 COMMENTARY BY CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON I have never been much of an administrator. My forte has always been the action, the confrontations, the long voyages and the challenging of the unlawful operations threatening life and diversity in the sea. My entire life has been guided by my experiences with defending and protecting the citizens of the natural world. I began my career at the age of eleven when I began to walk the traplines in Eastern Canada,…
October 13, 2023 Commentary by Captain Paul Watson Some people have been asking me what is my position on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Politically, I don’t have a position; but ethically I have a very clear position, and that is I don’t condone the killing of children by anyone, for any reason, anywhere, at any time. What I care about is that children are being murdered. Israeli children and Palestinian children. No matter what the reason, there can be no justification…
October 12, 2023 “Diminishment of species is a direct cause of climate change, the inability of diminished plants and animals to sequester carbon. Overfishing is a major cause of diminishment of fishes, as is pollution and changing sea temperatures. The less fish, the less healthy the ocean. Phytoplankton also play a key role in keeping not just our ocean healthy, but our entire planet. If phytoplankton is removed from marine ecosystems, the entire planet will be unlivable by most species,…
October 11, 2023 The headline in the British Business Times says it all: SEA SHEPHERD DITCHES DIRECT ACTION FOR COOPERATION Sea Shepherd Global unlawfully ousted Global Directors Lamya Essemlali and myself last year because we were both considered too controversial and too action oriented, and we were also asking too many questions that the four other directors refused to answer. From the most bad-ass marine conservation movement on the planet to becoming a servant to governments and a training program…
October 10, 2023 In March 2013, I left the helm of the M/V STEVE IRWIN off the coast of Tasmania and transferred to the BRIGITTE BARDOT to begin 6 months of exile in the South Pacific before being allowed by U.S. Secretary John Kerry to return to the United States. It was the last time I saw the flagship that I commanded from 2006 until 2013, the ship that led the campaigns to oppose illegal Japanese whaling in the Southern…
October 8, 2023 COMMENTARY BY CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE IN THE NEWFOUNDLAND NEWSPAPER THE WESTERN STANDARD By Christopher Oldcorn. Oct 6th, 2023 WESTERN STANDARD: The president of one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest unions stated that media and animal rights activists have influenced Canadians against the Atlantic seal hunt through “indoctrination.” “It was all crushed,” Greg Pretty, president of the 14,000-member Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union, told the Senate Fisheries committee. “We had the products,…
October 5, 2023 For years I have warned that environmental activism would be co-opted by governments and corporations. The word sustainable is now freely used on products that are not sustainable. Alternative energies that are not really alternative and, of course, the use of words to cover up destruction and damage. Words like the Canadian “Seal Protection Act” that was established to protect the sealing industry for example. It appears you just have to market your products with the right words…