03/25/2025
CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT FOR AN IMPOSSIBLE MISSION
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A message from Captain Paul Watson,
When faced with a seemingly impossible mission, the answer is to find the impossible solution through the application of passion, courage and imagination. We've done the impossible before. Let's do it again.
We upheld the global moratorium on commercial whaling and sank half the outlaw Icelandic whaling fleet in 1986 without any legal repercussions. We stopped the Icelandic whalers again in 2023. We stopped them yet again in 2024. We have a job to finish, and we must stop them for good in 2025!
Last year, I spent five months in a Greenland prison for opposing illegal Japanese whaling. Being detained on an extradition demand by Japan presented me with the opportunity to use my incarceration to focus international attention on the continued illegal whaling operations of the Japanese whaling fleet and the continued unlawful slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins in the Danish Faroe Islands.
Japan failed to extradite me once again despite 13 years of persecution by politically abusing the Interpol Red Notice on the charge of conspiracy to trespass and to obstruct business. I emerged from that Greenlandic prison determined to continue the fight to abolish whaling worldwide.
Over the last fifty years, I've shut down pirate whalers, forced the Japanese whaling fleet out of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, sank half the Icelandic whaling fleet and half the Spanish whaling fleet. I also led a campaign to invade the Soviet Union in 1981 to secure evidence of illegal whaling.
When I began this quest in 1977, numerous nations were whale killers. We helped to end whaling in Spain, Russia, South Korea, South Africa, Peru, Chile and even Australia. It has been a long and difficult struggle and in the process thousands of whales were spared from the deadly harpoons. These victories came with a cost that I am willing to pay. Exiled, a fugitive from Japan for opposing the killing of whales and from Costa Rica for saving sharks. I have been jailed and beaten yet I have never been convicted of a felony crime.
In 2017, Costa Rica dropped the Red Notice when the government was changed, and the new Costa Rican Environment Minister called me to apologize for the previous government's false charges.
In 2022, I was unlawfully and deceitfully dismissed from the organization I created by opportunistic people that I thought were my longtime friends because they thought I was too controversial (despite our successes) and my tactics too aggressive (even though I have never injured a single person).
I am 74 years old, and I have been fighting the whalers since I was 24 and I am not ready to quit, not yet, not until the insidious slaughter of the whales worldwide is ended. This fight has been the primary purpose of my life for over half a century, and I need to follow through, I need to stop the remorseless slaughter of the largest self-aware sentient beings on this planet. And to do this I am requesting your support to allow my ships to set out on a voyage to save threatened Fin whales, the second largest life forms in the sea.
We need to be ready in two months. We need to sail for Iceland, and we need to save the lives of Fin whales threatened by the fanatical obsession of Kristján Loftsson, the wealthiest and most influential man in Iceland, a self-declared modern-day Captain Ahab. He intends to send his two ships to sea to inflict death and suffering. We intend to intervene to save lives and to uphold the global moratorium on the killing of whales.
Will you join me in this great endeavor of compassion for the lives of the whales? The Fin whales need us, and we must answer the call.
For the ocean,
Captain Paul Watson
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