Ocean Sentry
(From greenmuze.com)- Have you ever wondered just what kind of effort it takes to stop a whaling ship? An exciting (and somewhat controversial) new hybrid activist documentary/drama/reality show is airing on Animal Planet November 7th, 2008 – Whale Wars – a behind the scenes look at the campaigns of famous (infamous to some) anti-whale activist and Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson.
Paul Watson founded his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977 because he wanted to go even further to eradicate whaling, poaching, shark finning and habitat destruction — and to uphold international conservation laws on the high seas — than the Greenpeace group he had co-founded was prepared to go.
During their anti-whaling 2007-2008 campaign, Animal Planet captured the Sea Shepherd at work, including their trials and tribulations, in a seven-part, hour-long weekly series called Whale Wars, premiering Friday, November 7 at 9 PM. Whale Wars draws attention to the global conservation issue that has caused international friction between nations over the practice of whaling in oceanic territories. We caught up with Captain Paul Watson to ask him a few questions about his new program Whale Wars and why whales matter to our survival as a species.
If we destroy the whales, we will destroy our oceans and if the oceans die, civilization will collapse and humanity will become extinct.
(By GreenMuze Staff)
