PAUL WATSON RESIGNS FROM SEA SHEPHERD

This is absolutely correct.

See AFP dispatch published in THE WORLD of 08 / 01 / 2013

"The Canadian Paul Watson, founder of the anti-whaling organization Sea Shepherd and currently wanted by Interpol, on Tuesday gave up his functions within the environmental organization, in particular those of captain of a boat in the fleet.

Watson is currently wanted by Interpol: arrested in May at Frankfurt airport at the request of the Costa Rica who accuses him ofavoir endangered a crew during an operation against shark hunting in 2002, he had escaped the Justice German and fled.

The 62-year-old environmental activist has resigned as president of Sea Shepherd (“Berger des mers”) in the United States and Australia. For legal reasons, he also gave up his position as Captain of the Steve Irwin, a fleet boat that harasses Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. His duties with Sea Shepherd were transferred to Bob Brown, a male policy Australian founder of the Green party.

Le Steve Irwin will now be driven by an Indian sailor, Siddharth Chakravarty, while Watson will stay on board "for return campaign account ”. “I am very honored to put serving the whales of the Southern Ocean and Sea Shepherd in this way ”, said Bob Brown, figure of the environmental movement in Australia.

Watson's decision was made for legal reasons, explained Jeff hansen, director of the association for Australia. “We obviously want stay within the law in everything we do, and for that, Sea Shepherd Australia is taking the lead in this campaign, and Paul is stepping down from the board of directors in Australia and the US ”, did he declare.

Watson, nicknamed the “green pirate”, had fled this summer fromGermany despite house arrest. He had explained avoir four months to join Australia by crossing “Two oceans and an incalculable number of rivers, crossing three mountain ranges, a desert, lakes and dozens of cities”. He then embarked on board the Steve Irwin in Melbourne the 5 November 2012 for take the head of the 9^e the association's campaign, the most ambitious in its history, with four ships - including the Brigitte Bardot - a helicopter, three drones and a hundred people involved.