![]() ![]() Its small fleet travels the globe with limited funding, no weapons, and no naval or coast-guard protection to stop illegal whaling and fishing. In some cases Sea Shepherd has shut down a country’s entire whaling operation. With more than two hundred sea voyages undertaken since 1977, the group claims to have saved many thousands of whales, seals, and other sea creatures. ![]() Sea Shepherd’s founder, Paul Watson, believes in taking direct action to save marine wildlife - very direct. I’d sit on the couch eating dinner and cheer them on, wondering if I could ever be so brave. The wind-whipped people on my TV screen looked cold, strong, and resolute as they deliberately went in harm’s way to save whales. ![]() cable-television channel Animal Planet was filming a series called Whale Wars about the group’s activities. W hile living in Australia in 2010, I heard a good deal about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - a group of marine-wildlife activists who were going up against Japanese whaling ships in the Antarctic seas ( They made the news night after night, and the U.S. ![]()
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