Navaho Gunleg

A colleague and friend of mine whose name I won’t mention to protect the innocent, told me some stories about Sea Shepherd, an organisation whose mission statement it is to protect and conserve marine wild-life — and does this very actively by basically stalking and irritating the hell out of whale-hunters, et cetera.

A couple of years ago I did once read that some/one of the founding members of Greenpeace at a certain point, got out of that organisation. I didn’t read why, nor who it was or what that guy did after that, though. Well, now I do: Paul Watson founded The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. I wouldn’t have had heard of it, and its campaigns, if I hadn’t been told, though.

There are quite a lot of videos on YouTube documenting some of their actions, you can see that their work is more direct and far more risky than those organisations that attempt to accomplish similar goals through diplomacy — other organisations that are more heavily funded and seem to only spend this on buying expensive advertisement-time on TV…

I think these guys are doing a hell of a good job enforcing the laws that countries don’t seem to care about enough to take real action — probably politics has a lot to do with it; the politics of economics.