Paul Watson
BY: Rainbow Shi
Grace Kim
Table of contents
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Who is Paul Watson?
What Paul Watson had done?
What Paul Watson had said?
History
Awards/Commendations
Activism
Removal from Greenpeace Board
Education and Public Presentations
Examples for Global Citizen
All pictures about Paul Watson
Who is Paul Watson?
• Paul Franklin Watson,
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is a controversial and
outspoken Canadian
animal rights and
environmental activist.
He founded and is
president of the Sea
Shepherd
Conservation Society,
a direct action group
devoted to marine
conservation.
By: Rainbow Shi
What Paul Watson had said?
"I have been honored
to serve the whales,
dolphins, seals - and
all the other
creatures on this
Earth. Their beauty,
intelligence, strength,
and spirit have
inspired me. These
beings have spoken
to me, touched me,
and I have been
rewarded by
friendship with many
members of
different species.
- Paul Watson
History
• The idea of Sea Shepherd was formed when
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Captain Paul Watson founded the Earth Force
Society in Vancouver BC, Canada.
The maiden voyage of the Se a Shepherd under the
command of Watson is a journey across the
Atlantic accomplished in two weeks and the ship
arrives at the Port of Boston in mid-January.
Captain Watson travels to Lisbon to discover the
Sierra being repaired at dockside.
He also discovers that the Sea Shepherd has been
ordered confiscated without charges, a court
hearing, or a defense allowed.
By: Rainbow Shi
Oxfam's Definition of a
global citizen
• He has the understanding of how the world works
economically, politically, socially, culturally,
technologically, and environmentally.
-- His action of to save the marine animals by the illegal fishing
didn’t break any marine law, so it shows he understand that his
action should be under the law.
Oxfam's Definition of a
global citizen
• Is outraged by social injustice.
-- he thinks every life has the right to survive, he
and the volunteers decide to save the marine
animal from illegal fishing. He said: "Nemo
understood that it did not matter what humans thought,
because humanity was the problem. His duty was to save
life in the sea from the greed of mankind. I understand
that philosophy and I have lived it every day of my adult
life."
By:rainbow
Oxfam's Definition of a
global citizen
• Is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and
sustainable place.
-- he has protest the marine animals for 31 years, and 4000
volunteers had been with him, he wants to keep doing this
in his rest life.
--Some people just feel sorry about those been killed animals,
but they didn’t do any potent action to help those animals.
And some people say Paul Watson is futiled and he said: “"I don't
care. I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a
warrior and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.“
By:rainbow
Awards/Commendations
• Watson was awarded an honorary citizenship to
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the French town of St. Jean Cap Ferrat.
Previous to that he was made an honorary citizen
of the Florida Keys.
Other awards include Toronto City TV's
Environmentalist of the Year Award and the
Genesis Award and he was enrolled in the U.S.
He was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the
environmental heroes of the 20th Century in the
year 2000.
By: Rainbow Shi
Activism
• Over the years, Watson has exhibited a remarkable
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diversity in his activism.
Aside from being a co-founder of Greenpeace
Greenpeace International, and founder of Sea
Shepherd, Watson was a Field Correspondent for
Defenders of Wildlife.
He was a field representative for the Fund for
Animals and a representative for the Royal Society
for the Protection of Animals in He co-founded
Earthforce Environmental Society and Friends of
the Wolf.
Watson's first affiliation with the Sierra Club and
he has remained a Sierra Club supporter ever since.
By: Grace Kim
Removal from Greenpeace Board
• The group felt his strong, "front and center" personality
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and frequently voiced opposition to Greenpeace's
interpretation of "nonviolence" were too divisive.
During an interview with CBC Radio, Watson spoke out
against Greenpeace and their role and motives for the
anti-sealing campaigns.
Watson accused these organizations of campaigning
against the Canadian seal hunt because it is an easy way
to raise money and it is a profit maker for the
organizations.
Greenpeace has called Watson a violent extremist and will
no longer comment on his activities.
By: Grace Kim
Education and Public Presentations
• Watson majored in communications and linguistics
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at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
He has lectured extensively at universities around
the world, and was a professor of Ecology at
Pasadena College of Design.
Currently, Watson is a registered speaker with the
Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau of Boston,
He regularly gives presentations at colleges and
universities in the United States, and at special
events throughout world.
By: Grace Kim
All pictures about Paul Watson
• Pictured above are the only
two crewmembers who chose
to stay onboard the Sea
Shepherd with Paul Peter Woof (left) and Jerry
Doran.
• Watson left the Greenpeace
Foundation because of
disagreements on tactics
• Watson left Greenpeace
because he saw a global need
to continue direct action
conservation activities on the
high seas by an organization
that would enforce laws
protecting marine wildlife.
• Watson led the second Greenpeace
campaign to oppose the seal hunt off the
coast of Labrador, this time bringing
international movie star Brigitte Bardot to the
ice floes to focus international attention on
the seal slaughter.
By: Grace Kim