Campaign for the Sharks
Over 8,000 tons of shark fins are processed each year. The fins only amount to 4% of a shark's bodyweight. This means that some 200,000 tons of shark are thrown back into the sea and discarded. Already 18 species of sharks have been listed as endanger...
Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying
Today, 90% of the sea’s species from the highest parts of the food chain or its biggest predators, such as tuna, cod, sword fish and sharks have practically been eliminated or are in a situation of critical decline. The result is an unstable ecosystem...
The End of the Line
The world’s first major documentary about the devastating effect of overfishing premiered at Sundance Film Festival Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop..
The Cove
The Cove begins in Taiji, Japan, where former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. In the 1960s, it was O’Barry who captured and trained the 5 dolphins who played the title character in the international television sensation “Flipper.”...
Sea Shepherd in the Galapagos
Since 2000, Sea Shepherd has maintained a strong, positive presence in the Galapagos Islands. From patroling the Marine Reserve stopping illegal fishing activities, to busting shark finners, to educating the local youth, Sea Shepherd carries out its mission of promoting ocean conservation using a wide range of methods and actions.The Galapagos is our line in the sand. If humanity cannot
Shark Angels Sea Shepherd has long been committed to shark conservation, and in 2007 it took this commitment to an even higher level by co-founding the S... |
Save the marine turtles A marine turtle survey has been recently completed near Ella Bay in Far North Queensland Australia. After discovering previously unrecorded ... |
The World of 2108 I was asked recently what I thought the world would be like in 100 years. The question was meant to solicit if I am an optimist or a pessimi... |
7 Billion Beasts Africa's a mess. Doesn't hardly matter what horrid scourge you're looking for, Africa's got it: genocide, civil war, systematic rape, dictat... |
We Need to Stop Eating the Oceans By Captain Paul Watson The Oceans are like the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg. As long as it was alive it laid a golden egg each day but the... |
Longline and Shark Finning A longline is a fishing line usually made of monofilament. The length of the line generally ranges from 1.6km (1 mile) to as long as 100km (... |
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The Ecological Insanity of Fish Farming Commentary by Captain Paul Watson (2008) As human populations continue to grow, more and more stress is placed upon ecological carrying capacity. One area where this is most evident is in marine eco-systems. There is simply not enough fish in the oceans to continue to feed the ever expanding populations of homo sapiens. As wild populations of...
Shark Fin Soup Facts It wouldn’t be news if I told you our planet has its environmental problems. We’re making some progress in controlling what we put into the air, put into our landfills and even put into our oceans. But we’re not paying enough attention to what we are taking out of our oceans – sharks – and they’re being killed at the rate of up to 73...
Ocean Acidification Increases Our Ecological Debt Economists claim the financial crisis, driven by a decade-long boom of housing and consumption-related indebtedness, is almost over. Maybe so. But our ecological debt continues to grow. Just as it is a truism in business that a heavy dependence on borrowed money produces short-term gain and long-term pain, we have grown our economy by borrowing...
The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth? There is a Biocentric Solution. Commentary by Paul Watson Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Does humanity have a future? We are presently living in what conservation biologists refer to as the Holocene extinction event. This is the sixth global mass extinction event in last 439 million years.
Why is it still acceptable to eat the endangered large predators of the sea? By George Monbiot To Ransom A. Myers, who died on March 27th. If these animals lived on land there would be a global outcry. But the great beasts roaming the savannahs of the open seas summon no such support. Big sharks, giant tuna, marlin and swordfish should have the conservation status of the giant panda or the snow leopard. Yet still we...
Jellyfish invasion a sign of trouble to come World leaders attending the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen most likely will not discuss the invasion of the jellyfish, but perhaps they should. While it might sound like the stuff of a B horror movie, millions of jellyfish — some the size of refrigerators — are swarming coastlines from Spain to New York and Japan to Hawaii. Last month,...
The Politics of Extinction Remain a parasite OR become an Earth Warrior Article by Captain Paul Watson We are at the present time living in an age of mass extinction. Each year, more than 20,000 unique species disappear from this planet forever. This represents more that two species per hour. Species extinction is the fuel that supports the ever increasing progress of...
Life depends on the oceans It's often said that we know as much about Mars and the moon as we do about our oceans. Considering that Earth is 71 per cent ocean, this should be cause for concern. At the very least, we should be doing more to protect our oceans from the negative effects of human activities, even if we don't fully understand all that is happening under the...
Concerns raised over Marine Stewardship Council’s fish label An eco-labelling scheme intended to encourage people to eat fish from sustainable sources is being criticised by conservationists. The collaboration between the conservation group WWF and Unilever, until recently one of the world’s biggest seafood retailers, now gives its stamp of approval to $1.5 billion (£900 million) of business every...
Who are the Real Pirates in Somalia? Sociologist Peter Berger has instructed that "The first wisdom of Sociology is that things are not what they seem." So it is with the Western media rendition of their piracy stories from Somalia. An article in the London-based Independent newspaper has confirmed the suspicions of many that behind the Western media hysteria over on Somali pirates...
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