Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd, the fight of a lifetime

"If the oceans die, we die..."

A price on his head, an Interpol file, arrest in Germany... This is the story of Paul Watson. Adulated by some, branded an ecoterrorist by others, the man Time Magazine calls one of the twenty greatest environmental heroes of the 20th century is none other than the founder of Sea Shepherd.

Tracking down whale hunters in Antarctica, helping to dismantle poachers in the Southern Ocean, fighting against the imprisonment of animals in aquatic parks or, more recently, defending dolphins sacrificed on the altar of industrial fishing: this association has never carried out as many missions as it has in recent years.

Founded over forty years ago, Sea Shepherd is without doubt - and intends to remain - the world's most combative ocean conservation organization.

Paul Watson looks back on its creation, evolution and prospects. It's the fight of a lifetime, and one whose urgency is growing with the pace of global warming.