Paul Watson

Also known as Paul Franklin Watson

Canadian environmental activist

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Works: 61

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Big Book of Braindumps
Selenium Webdriver in PHP
LeanFT in C#. Net
LeanFT in Java
Appium in Java

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Acting · Toronto, Canada

Paul Franklin Watson is a Canadian-American conservation and environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation activism.

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Com Causa2026
Bardot — Self2025
Edward Abbey, naturellement subversif ! — Self2025
Root Republic — Self2019
On The Wild Side — Self2019
Defend, Conserve, Protect — Himself2019
Watson — Himself2019
The Map to Paradise — Himself2019
Ocean Warriors - Chasing the Thunder — Self2019
Sharkwater Extinction — Himself2018

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1950

appalachian folkbluegrassfolktraditional country

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Total plays: 563

Paul Watson is a vocalist, bassist and experimental noise artist from London. He is best known as his solo noise persona BBBlood, but he has also appeared in numerous punk acts, such as Morose, Butt Melt and the Stickybacks as either a singer, bass player or combination of the two. He is also a karaoke superstar, who can only be described as being 'in his element' when accompanied by Brett Davis, Annisa Chand, Michael Fitzgerald, Paul "Action" Jackson and Christopher Lambert. <a href="https://

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,588x
“Mini-mental state”
· 1975 · cited 67,761x
Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
· 2009 · cited 45,549x
Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,773x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,730x

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Quotes

“When it comes to whaling, I believe that direct action is the most effective approach. There is no argument to say otherwise. Our actions speak for themselves. In the Southern Ocean we saved the lives of 6,500 whales. Overall, through the decades, I believe that we’ve saved the lives of tens of thousands of whales that would have been killed illegally if not for our intervention.”
“I am unconcerned if people do not approve of this approach, but my position is: find a whale that disapproves of our actions and we might reconsider. We didn’t ram and sink those whaling ships for people. We did so for the whales. They are our clients.”
“I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are. In essence we're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend", and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.”
“All of our targets were criminals, they were all operating in violation of international whaling laws.”
“We are pirates of compassion hunting down, hunting down and destroying pirates of profit.”
“Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.”

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Key facts

Born: Paul Franklin Watson , ( 1950-12-02 ) December 2, 1950 (age 75) , Toronto , Ontario , Canada
Citizenship: Canadian American
Occupations: Activist television personality
Known for: Environmental, conservational and animal rights activism
Spouses: Starlet Lum Lisa DiStefano Allison Lance ( divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. c. 2008 ) Yana Rusinovich ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 )

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Paul Franklin Watson (born December 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American environmental, conservation and animal rights activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation activism. The tactics used by Sea Shepherd have attracted opposition, with the group accused of eco-terrorism by both the Japanese government and Greenpeace. Watson is a citizen of Canada and the United States.

Watson, a native of Toronto, has been an environmental activist since his teens. He joined a Sierra Club protest against nuclear testing in 1969 and crewed on board the Greenpeace Too in November 1971, to oppose nuclear testing at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. In 1972, he was a co-founder of Greenpeace. Because Watson argued for a strategy of direct action that conflicted with the Greenpeace interpretation of nonviolence, he was ousted from the board in 1977. Greenpeace has since stated that Watson was an influential early member, but not one of the founders of Greenpeace. Watson states that Greenpeace has revised their history but Jerry Rothwells documentary How to Change the World firmly established Watson as the 8th founding member of Greenpeace, with the lifetime membership number of 007 with Robert Hunter being 000. The same year, he formed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The group was the subject of a reality show named Whale Wars.