Congratulations to Randall Arauz Congratulations to Randall Arauz, the President of Pretoma (Progama Restauracion de Tortugas Marianas) for winning the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize. The award recognizes his tireless work to draw international attention to the inhumane and environmentally catastrophic shark finning industry, and his unrelenting campaign to halt the practice in Costa Rica. “Shark finning is not only cruel; it is irresponsible and unsustainable fishing at its highest degree” said Arauz during the filming of the award video detailing his work, “In spite of this, it has been close to impossible to attain any international binding management and conservation measures to curtail this practice.” Announced every April to coincide with Earth Day, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots environmental heroes from the six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America.
The Cove is the Critics Choice The Cove directed by Louie Psihoyos has won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles. The film about the slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan features interviews with Sea Shepherd President and Founder Captain Paul Watson as well as footage of Sea Shepherd crewmembers Allison Lance and Alex Cornelissen releasing dolphins from the nets at Taiji. The Cove won out over four other nominees including Michael Jackson’s This Is It.
Urgent Reforms Needed of Environmental Criminal Law for Galapagos Last week, during an inspection by the environmental police K9 unit, a foreign tourist was caught trying to smuggle a lava lizard (Microlophus albermaflensis) past the airport checkpoint and out of Ecuador. Lava lizards are endemic to Galapagos and are a protected species in Ecuador
Sea Shepherd Receives Generous Support in Sydney For the past week, the crew of the Steve Irwin had the pleasure of being docked in the heart of Sydney opposite the famous Opera House. Again our thanks to Sydney Ports and all the people involved in giving us this fantastic berthing! On our daily tours, we had the opportunity to express our thanks to our supporters for backing us up these past several years in Australia. Many people came to see the ship and our tours were absolutely packed
Sea Shepherd Social Networking 101 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society would like to invite you to visit our official networking pages! We have great myspace and facebook pages and we’d like you to “be our friend.” Unfortunately, there are a lot of groups, forums, websites, and social networking pages on the internet all claiming to be affiliated or somehow associated with Sea Shepherd. Besides our official website, seashepherd.org, the following sites are Sea Shepherd’s only official social networking pages: Any other site claiming to represent the organization is not sanctioned nor authorized
