PARIS — Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling and arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France's president for political asylum, Sea Shepherd ...

In our first conversation with Captain Paul Watson, the anti-whaling activist talked through his recent five months in a Greenland jail, other brushes with the law in his 50 years of activism and his ...

Paul Watson’s recollection of his first encounter with Brigitte Bardot is both poignant and revealing. At the time, Watson was engaged in direct action against Norwegian seal hunters off the coast of ...

Captain Paul Watson navigating rough seas. (Photo: Eric Cheng / Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) Captain Paul Watson–a major figure for decades in the realm of animal rights, he founded the Sea ...

PARIS (AP) — He's a fugitive on Interpol's Red List and a marine vigilante who's done jail time for extradition requests. Yet to many, he's also a heroic marine conservationist who risks his life and ...

Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, faces up to 15 years in prison in Japan if convicted on charges including accomplice to assault and ship trespass Paul Watson, ...

BURLINGTON — A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss a civil suit filed against Paul Watson, a founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, famous for taking direct action against whalers ...

PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed ...

A U.S.-Canadian anti-whaling activist has been detained in Greenland and faces possible extradition to Japan which has issued an international warrant for his arrest, the Arctic island's police said ...