The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit, non-governmental maritime organization founded by Paul Watson in 1977. The organization was founded after Watson's expulsion from Greenpeace, an organization which Watson originally helped found, over disagreements over tactics. Sea Shepherd is more militant than Greenpeace; indeed, Paul Watson has since referred to Greenpeace as "The Avon ladies of the environmental movement". Paul Watson (born December 2, 1950) is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Greenpeace protest. ...

Sea Shepherd is currently based in Friday Harbor, Washington, in the United States, and has a fleet of two ships, the Farley Mowat and the Sirenian. Major operations include interdiction against whaling in Antarctic waters, patrols of the Galapagos Islands, and action against Canadian seal hunters. Sea Shepherd has an affiliated organization in Canada called ORCA Force. Cars at the entrance to the ferry dock at Friday Harbor. ... World map showing location of Antarctica A satellite composite image of Antarctica For the Kim Stanley Robinson novel see Antarctica (novel) Antarctica (from Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. ... NASA Satellite photo of the Galápagos archipelago. ...

Sea Shepherd engages in a number of provocative actions to protect marine wildlife such as seals, dolphins and whales. These have included more conventional protests, as well as, at times, such actions as armed boardings of foreign-flag vessels in international waters, scuttling and sinking of fishing boats engaged in illegal fishery operations, acts of sabotage against vessels in harbor, ramming the illegal whaling ship the Sierra in the Portuguese harbor, and the confiscation and destruction of illegal driftnets at sea. Sea Shepherd has also conducted an intense media campaign against Japanese high seas whaling and the Canadian sealing industry in particular. subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora. ... This article is about the dolphin mammal. ... Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic placental mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ... The terms international waters, transboundary waters, or High Seas apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands. ... This article is about Sabotage sabotage can also refer to: an early Black Sabbath album (Sabotage), the Alfred Hitchcock films (Sabotage or Saboteur), a Beastie Boys song, or a type of shock site. ... The crew of the oceanographic research vessel Princesse Alice, of Albert Grimaldi (later Prince Albert I of Monaco) pose while flensing a catch Whaling is the hunting and killing of whales. ...

Sea Shepherd bases its actions on international maritime law enforcement under the United Nations charter. Sea Shepherd is supported by private donations and operated by volunteers and paid staff, including two of its founder's wives. Critics, however, including its targets consider Sea Shepherd to be operating outside the law, harassing their lawful fishing and resource extraction operations, and use political epithets such as "pirate" and "ecoterrorist" to refer to the organization. Admiralty law (usually referred to as simply admiralty and also referred to as maritime law) is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... A pirate is one who robs or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised sovereign nation. ... The term eco-terrorism is a neologism which has been used to describe acts of violence (as in violence against property), sabotage and/or property damage which are ostensibly motivated by concern for the natural environment. ...

In the course of these operations Sea Shepherd associates have been threatened, taken prisoner, and tried for commission of crimes on the high seas including maritime piracy, usually with little success. Paul Watson, the founder of the group, was arrested in 1993 in Canada on charges stemming from actions against Cuban and Spanish fishing boats off the coast of Newfoundland. In 1997, Watson was convicted in absentia by Norway on charges of sinking a Norwegian whaling ship, but Dutch authorities refused to hand him over to Norwegian authorities. Costa Rica filed attempted murder charges against Watson for an incident after he caught a Costa Rican fishing boat poaching, but charges were dropped after prosecutors were shown a film of the incident that was shot by a team making a documentary of Sea Shepherd. Several nations including Japan have pressured the United States to declare Sea Shepherd a terrorist organization. Animal rights activist Rod Coronado, who has had numerous legal problems stemming from his activism, got his start in activism with Sea Shepherd, where he participated in one of Sea Shepherd's best-known and most controversial actions, the scuttling of two ships from Iceland's whaling fleet while in port in 1986. This article is about sea pirates. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ... Animal rights, or animal liberation, is the movement to protect non-human animals from being exploited by humans. ... Rod Coronado is an eco-anarchist activist and editor of the Earth First Journal. ...

Despite their frequent legal troubles in various nations, Sea Shepherd currently has working agreements with several countries including Ecuador, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Indonesia to help those countries fight poaching, and has worked against poaching in cooperation with the United States government in the past.

As of 2005, Sea Shepherd's current priorities are a permanent patrol in the Galapagos Islands to protect sea tortoises and other marine wildlife, and a campaign against the 2005 seal hunt in Canada, which includes a boycott of Canadian seafood products. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NASA Satellite photo of the Galápagos archipelago. ... Genera Chersina Dipsochelys Furculachelys Geochelone Gopherus Homopus Indotestudo Kinixys Malacochersus Manouria Psammobates Pyxis Testudo Tortoise is the name given to the land-dwelling reptiles most of whose body is shielded by a special shell. ... A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong. ...

Sea Shepherd has many critics, but also many outspoken supporters including actors Pierce Brosnan, Martin Sheen, Sean Penn, and William Shatner, environmental activists Dave Foreman and Farley Mowat, and the late writer Edward Abbey. Corporate sponsors include Paul Mitchell Systems and Patagonia. Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish film actor and producer. ... Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is an American actor. ... Sean Penn winning the 2004 Oscar for the Best Actor Sean Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor. ... William Shatner as Captain Kirk William Shatner (born in Montreal, Quebec, March 22, 1931) is an actor, writer and musical performer. ... Dave Foreman (born 1947) is a US environmentalist and co-founder of the radical environmental movement Earth First! The son of a US Air Force career officer, as a young man Foreman was influenced by the writings of Ayn Rand and supported the Vietnam War. ... Farley Mowat O.C. (born May 12, 1921) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. ... Edward Abbey, having shot out his Tee Vee Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989) was a respected American author and essayist noted for his strong criticism of public land policies and passionate advocacy of environmental issues. ...

Bibliography

• Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas, by Paul Watson, 1994
• Seal Wars, by Paul Watson, 2002

External links

• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society website (http://www.seashepherd.org/)