Whaling

Inter Group Conflict

Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are both environmental organizations. The main goal of both groups is the protection of wildlife and conservation. You would think that these two groups would be able to get along. The founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was once a founding member of Greenpeace. Paul Watson helped to create Greenpeace and then later went on to create the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. You would think that these two groups could work together to reach their end goals….

Sadly these two groups can not see eye to eye on how best to take on the role of conservation. Greenpeace has a very strict peaceful and nonviolence approach to whaling. Greenpeace is committed to non-violence and we'll never, ever, change that, not for anything. (Greenpeace) Greenpeace will watch and document the killing of whale or try to get in between the whalers and the whale. The Sea Shepherd Society has a different approach to whalers. They try to disarm the whalers so that they have no chance of getting more whales. While Paul Watson himself gives the best differences between eh two groups. The best way to tell the difference between the Sea Shepherd approach to whaling and that of Greenpeace is this: When Greenpeace shows up in Antarctica, they film whaling and buzz the whalers in inflatable boats. The whalers simply continue whaling looking at Greenpeacers as a minor annoyance. When Sea Shepherd ships show up, the whalers stop the killing and they run. (Watson) This causes the biggest conflicts between the two groups. Greenpeace looks at the other as a terrorist group and the Sea Shepherd Society looks at the other as a corrupt group just looking to get more money.

The Sea Shepherd has taken a different approach to the whalers and this has caused issues between them and Greenpeace. I think both groups would get a lot further if they came together to work on the bottom line which is to end...