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...Watson was one of the three co-founders of Greenpeace, but in 1977 the group expelled him after he forcibly stopped a Canadian seal hunter clubbing seals on the ice floes of Newfoundland. He now ridicules the organization for deserting its principles and lavishing money on fruitless ad campaigns; “It’s become the world’s biggest feel-good organization...
...band of pirates takes a more radical approach. Over the last few months Watson pursued Japanese whalers across the South Pacific in the Steve Irwin, a boat named after the Australian crocodile hunter, who had planned to join a Sea Shepherd voyage before his death. At the height of the chase, Sea Shepherd activists boarded a Japanese whaling vessel, sparking an international crisis that only ended when Australian diplomats negotiated the activists’ release. In the aftermath Australia’s generally anti-whaling government sternly warned Sea Shepherd to not repeat the stunt, and moderate conservation groups distanced...
...Watson, the campaign was a success. He dismisses the Australian government’s complaint—“We expect criticisms from government, that’s all they ever do.” And he similarly discounts other groups’ concerns, “We’re the ladies of the night conservation organization—people agree with us, they just don’t want to seen with us.” More important to him is the claim that his protest cost the Japanese whaling program $70 million, and caused...
...condemn Watson’s acts and their philosophy. Eco-terrorism has always repelled me; using violence against humans seems an odd way to preach compassion towards animals. Moreover, many of Watson’s actions seem patently counter-productive: Icelandic support for whaling was said to peak after Watson scuttled two Icelandic whaling boats in Reykjavik’s harbor...
...decrepit black trawler, the Farley Mowat, will patrol the ice-clad waters of Newfoundland, as Canada’s 2008 seal hunt begins. The Canadian government has increased this year’s permits to allow the killing of 275,000 seals, 98 percent of them babies, in what Watson calls “the world’s largest marine slaughter.” And in spite of new government regulations designed to stop the live skinning and clubbing of seals, Watson says that his crews have already documented seals bleeding to death...