September 2nd 2008

“Sometimes the good guys wear black and sometimes pirates are heroes”. Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Captain Paul Watson - a founding father of Greenpeace and now head of the marine conservation society Sea Shepherd - took time out of a busy schedule touring Europe to visit us at our HQ in Stroud.

Sea Shepherd have been heroes of ours for a long time now - straight talking and hard hitting, Captain Watson has doggedly pursued a course of in-their-face no nonsense intervention - to protect marine species all over the world - for over thirty years. He describes his organisation as “pirates of compassion in pursuit of pirates of greed who plunder marine wildlife.”

A meeting of minds

“I wanted to build an organization of dedicated and passionate volunteers and supporters. I did not want some polite, let's recycle, adopt a whale, sign a petition, organize a walk-a-thon, social club. I wanted an interventionist conservation organization and not a conversation club.” Captain Paul Watson

“Mankind loves to have conversations about conservation; we just don't get around to active conservationism. Humanity needs organisations like Sea Shepherd to get out there and get their hands dirty.”
Dale Vince, Ecotricity

More from Captain Paul

“In early June I boarded a train at Paddington Station in London and headed into the heartland of England to a small town called Stroud in Gloucestershire to meet an extraordinary man.

"Dale Vince is not the kind of man you would expect to be a CEO of a major power company...”
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