Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization.
Link: seashepherd.org
Operation Jairo is working closely with the Barbuda community in this effort. Members of the Barbuda Council visited the team on board the Brigitte Bardot and joined in night patrols on Low Bay. Council members were lucky to witness a critically endangered hawksbill turtle laying her ...
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson On Thursday, June 21st, Iceland killed their first endangered Fin whale since 2015 and a Sea Shepherd crew were in place despite the poor weather to document Hvalur 8 dragging it back just before midnight and butchered during the early hours of Friday...
Sea Shepherd has been in Barbuda since July 7th , patrolling and protecting the nesting beaches of endangered hawksbill, green, and leatherback sea turtles. The campaign, Operation Jairo Caribbean, is named after Jairo Mora Sandoval, a Costa Rican conservationist murdered while protec...
July 25th, 2018 [Vancouver, BC] – On July 23rd an orca born into the critically endangered Southern Resident orca population died within hours of birth. Despite the decline of Orcas due to the loss of Chinook salmon, their primary food source, the Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oc...
With less than 30 vaquitas remaining, the need to continue this important work to protect the species is indisputable. Sea Shepherd just completed its most successful season of its vaquita defense campaign to-date. During Operation Milagro IV, crews removed more fishing gear than all ...
LARGEST FISH FACTORY VESSEL IN THE WORLD ARRESTED AND SEIZED IN PERU PENDING CRIMINAL CHARGES The noose tightens on the Damanzaihao – a notorious black listed vessel – barred from leaving Peru with fines unpaid and resuming its slaughter of over half a million tons of marine wildlife ...
Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez is optimistic the judicial process facing the Canadian-American environmentalist Paul Watson in Costa Rica will soon be over and he will be welcomed back as a hero. During a recent radio program, Costa Rican Minister of Environment describe...
In the summer of 2015 Sea Shepherd Vessel SAM SIMON gathered intelligence and tracked a shipment of Frozen Fin Whale Meat from Iceland via Tromso, Norway, carried as containerized cargo on the vessel WINTER BAY on its way to Japan via the Northern Sea Route. Loftsson’s company had pre...
