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Canadian radical conservationist Paul Watson thinks the forces destroying the biosphere are so aggressive that immediate confrontational action must be taken to halt them. He played a major role in the initial anti-whaling and anti-sealing actions of Greenpeace. In 1977 Watson left Greenpeace and founded his own organisation, which evolved into Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The Society has taken action to end illegal whaling operations, dolphin slaughters, wolf hunts, and driftnetting, and has become one of the most effective conservation organisations. Paul Watson has been a key figure in the conservation movement for the last half-century.
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Watson, P. (2012): Earthforce! An Earth Warrior’s Guide to Strategy, 2nd edition, p. 28.
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Morris, D. B. (1995): Earth Warrior: Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, p. 13.
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Paul Watson in the 2008 film Pirate for the Sea.
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Quoted in Ryan, M. (1979): In a Dramatic Duel at Sea, a Young Conservationist Rams a Ship to Save the Whales. People, August the 20th, 1979. people.com/archive/in-a-dramatic-duel-at-sea-a-young-conservationist-rams-a-ship-to-save-the-whales-vol-12-no-8/
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Quoted in Morris, D. B. (1995): Earth Warrior: Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, p. 115.
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Erdős, L. (2019). Paul Watson – The Daredevil of Conservation. In: Green Heroes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31806-2_29
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