Bernard sidler biography

Captain Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd has dedicated his life, and at times his safety, to protecting the harp seals of Canada from brutal, club-wielding sealers who kill the animals for their pelts.

“Forty years ago on March 15th, 1977, French film star Brigitte Bardot traveled to the ice floes off the Eastern Coast of Canada to focus attention on the slaughter of baby whitecoat seals,” Captain Watson recently wrote in an open letter on Sea Shepherd.

“Her arrival was met with hostility by Newfoundland sealers and by the Canadian government, yet despite harassment and ugly threats she rode in my helicopter far offshore to meet the seals.”

This adversity-filled visit propelled the plight of the animal to a level of global awareness.

The photos of Bardot posing cheek-to-cheek with the baby animals created outrage, which led to the abolition of newborn whitecoat sea