Experiences based on determination and firm determination is the aptitude of every individual who wants to rule the world in his specific field. Canadian born, Paul Watson is the originator and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He has worked for long as the Commander and leader on seven different ships since 1978. Currently he is commanding the great flagship “Steve Irwin”.
Paul Watson has also animal rights and environmental activists and his campaign for the protection of helpless and unprotected aquatic wild life still continues worldwide. He always got fascination from sea and throughout his life; oceans and ships remain his second home.
He joined the Canadian Coast Guard in 1968, when he was just 18 years old. At the time, he served on- board buoys tenders, weather ships, and search and rescue hovercraft. He was very happy among sea waves and in 1969 he started his career as merchant seaman.
In the same year, he became the founder of the Greenpeace Foundation when he started helping to organize the trip on the Canadian and American boarders to resist against the nuclear testing. This nuclear testing was planned to experience at Amchitka Island by the Atomic Energy Commission.
He started a campaign as the purpose of this organization, Greenpeace Foundation, was to serve for the security and safety of marine creature. Watson directed the second Greenpeace campaign to compete against the seal hunt at the coast of Labrador. He served as the representative of the Fund for Animals between 1978 and 1981, and in 1979, he performed as a demonstrative for the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals.
His efforts for the protection of sea-life were appreciated much and consequently, he was selected as the director of the National Board of the Sierra Club USA from 2003-2006. Recently he is fighting to stop Japanese Whale hunting in Australian waters.
For his prestigious work, Paul Watson received many awards and prizes.He was bestowed an honorary citizenship to a French town and many other award. His work for protection and safety shows his humanitarian behavior for animals.
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