For the past several years, Captain Paul Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society crew have taken to the high seas to attempt to stop Japanese ships from hunting whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Captain Paul Watson founded Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977 because he believed his new organisation had to go even further to eradicate whaling, poaching, shark finning, habitat destruction and purported ocean law violations than the Greenpeace group he had co-founded. Taking viewers on a powerful journey behind the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s fight to eradicate whaling on the high seas, Discovery Channel’s thrilling new series WHALE WARS highlights both the controversial whaling trade and the tactics that Sea Shepherd and its staff and volunteers use to attempt to cripple it.