Sea Shepherd Vessel Departs US for Five-Year Patrol & Relief Mission in Galapagos Islands.News Desks/Environment Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 6, 2000-- Environmental Hero Paul Watson
Paul Watson (born December 2, 1950) is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is a significant, albeit controversial, figure in the environmental to Lead Effort: Hollywood Celebrities, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Sheen & Linda Blair, Lend Support Paul Watson, named an "Environmental Hero" of the 20th century by Time Magazine, will lead a crew of Sea Shepherd The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit, non-governmental, primarily maritime and self-proclaimed policing organization, that says it undertakes campaigns guided by the United Nations World Charter for Nature (1982) and other statutory laws protecting marine species International volunteers on a high-speed patrol vessel departing Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. on Thursday, December 7, and heading for the Galapagos Islands where the ship will commence an historic conservation patrol of the Galapagos Marine Resources Reserve. The mission marks the first time a foreign-registered vessel has been allowed to patrol the Islands along with the Galapagos National Park In 1959, Ecuador designated 97% of the land area of Galapagos as a National Park, and then in 1986. The Galapagos Marine Reserve was created in 1998, by the Special Law for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Galapagos Province. Service and the Ecuadorian Navy, and comes at a crucial juncture in the history of efforts to preserve the unique natural heritage of the Galapagos. Simmering tensions between the forces of conservation and exploitation exploded the week of November 17 when fishermen ransacked ran·sack tr.v. ran·sacked, ran·sack·ing, ran·sacks 1. To search or examine thoroughly. 2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage. several facilities of the Galapagos National Park and the Darwin Research Station, smashed and burned files and equipment, stole rare hatchling Galapagos tortoises from the tortoise breeding center, and broke into the Park Director's home and burned his possessions in the street. The fishermen demanded the lobster fishing quota be extended beyond the limits set on earlier this year. Hundreds of new fishermen had flocked to the islands to participate in the high-profit fishing. Ecuadorian President Gustavo Noboa has issued a statement affirming "the country's commitment to guarantee the conservation of the extraordinary biodiversity and ecosystems of the archipelago. Sea Shepherd's volunteer delivery crew piloted the vessel from its dry dock facilities in Seattle on November 25, and will fuel and take on supplies in Los Angeles. On board are donated computers, cameras, and video and communications equipment to replace units lost by the Galapagos National Park Service in the recent violence. "We are especially indebted to the Fund for Animals, whose generosity made possible the purchase of the bulk of the replacement equipment not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. by donations," said Captain Watson. "The Fund has always been one of the greatest friends of Sea Shepherd and marine wildlife. Their organization underwrote the purchase of our first vessel, which ended the career of the worst pirate whaling ship in history, the Sierra." The Sea Shepherd patrol vessel, Sirenian sirenian (sīrē`nēən) or sea cow, name for a large aquatic mammal of the order Sirenia. Living sirenians are the dugong and the manatee, both found in warm, shallow waters in sheltered regions, where they feed on , is a Canadian-registered 95-foot former US Coast Guard cutter. Just prior to departure, Captain Watson flew to London to make an international appeal for the Galapagos conservation mission via the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . He has returned to Los Angeles to take Sirenian to the Galapagos, where she will retain three Sea Shepherd volunteer crew and take on a captain and engineering staff from the Park Service and Ecuadorian Navy to begin a five-year tour of duty in the Marine Reserve. LAUNCH: Burton Chace Park, foot of Mindanao Way., Marina del Rey, CA -- behind the Santa Monica Yacht Club, on the main channel -- Take Mindanao Way west from Lincoln Blvd., park in the lot at the cul-de-sac TIME: Thursday, December 7 at 11 a.m. PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there Note to Editors: Digital photos will be available after the launch upon request. |
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