Captain Paul Watson and Tiffany Humphrey, co-authors of Orcapedia

Captain Paul Watson is a Canadian/American marine conservation environmentalist. One of the founding members and directors of Greenpeace, he left Greenpeace in 1977 and founded Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and later became familiar to the public through Animal Planet’s television show Whale Wars. Due to his dedication to the oceans and to the planet, he has received the Genesis Award for Lifetime Achievement; was named one of the top 20 Environmental Heroes of the 20th Century by Time Magazine; inducted into the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame in Washington D.C.; and awarded the Amazon Peace Prize by the president of Ecuador. In 2012 he became only the second person after Captain Jacques Cousteau to be awarded the Jules Verne Award which is dedicated to environmentalists and adventurers. In 2019 he was awarded a commendation from Governor Ned Lamont from the State of Connecticut for “50 years as an environmental conservation activist.” He is the author or coauthor of over a dozen books on his life as an activist, the environment, and Sea Shepherd’s numerous campaigns to defend marine wildlife. His most recent release coauthored with Tiffany Humphrey is Orcapedia: A Guide to the Victims of the International Orca Slave Trade (GroundSwell Books, 2020). Tiffany Humphrey has been working with marine wildlife since 2003 in South Carolina, Washington, and Hawaii. From 2009 to 2013 she worked as Paul’s executive assistant at Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. An avid photographer, some of her photos are used in ORCAPEDIA. She lives with her husband Charlie and two children, Jacob and Emily.