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Paul Watson Research Paper

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Imagine one day waking up and realizing that the sea animals in the entire ocean are no more. It’s estimated that about one-third of the earth love’s to eat sea food; therefore, most of the ocean contain sea animals, and with the smaller amount of the animals, there will be no sea food. Paul Watson dedicated his life to save the marine animals no matter what the cost, even his own arrest. Paul Watson is currently the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society after he was kicked out of the Greenpeace in 1977. He had a fitting life experience with sea animals his entire life Paul Watson was born in Toronto, Canada, on December 2, 1950. When Paul turn six year old he and his family moved to lobster fishing town of St. In 1960, Watson …show more content…

The nuclear test had been delayed to ruin the plans of the trip of the Greenpeace however, the U.S. Atomic Energy Committee advanced the next blast date to avoid the Greenpeace too. Watson, was one of the people who started a group and is the director of Greenpeace. Watson and some of his friends had made the first campaign about opposing whaling in 1974, as in the article; “Watson, Robber Hunter, Dr.Paul Spong and the others organized the first series of actions to reach a goal by Greenpeace to argue against whaling.” In June 1975, Robert Hunter and Watson were the first people to put their lives on the line to protect whales. When Watson place his inflatable Zodiac between a Russian Harpoon vessel and a pod of defenseless sperm whale. In the movie, A Fierce Green Fire, “Watson say that he recognized a glint of understanding in the dying whales eyes. He felt that the whale knew what they were about to do.” A few seconds of looking into the whale's eye it changed his life forever. He became a lifelong defender of the whales and all creatures in the

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