Our Incredible War on Wildlife, a stinging and satirical attack on sport hunting and commercial trapping in America. It serves as the primer for the CBS documentary, The Guns of Autumn. 1975 Fund successfully petitions U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to place 175 species on the endangered list, including the grizzly bear, argali sheep, and African elephant. Fund's Dexter Cate rescues dolphins from Japanese spearing on Iki Island. Japanese officials imprison him in solitary confinement for three months.
Fund buys British trawler, converts to icebreaker, and renames it the Sea Shepherd .
It sails to Magdalen Islands to stop the clubbing of baby seals. 1979 Fund's ice crew, led by captain Paul Watson, paints more than 1,000 baby seals with harmless red organic dye, rendering the pelts useless to furriers. Fund starts massive four-year airlift of burros scheduled to be shot by National Park Service in the Grand Canyon. Fund's Lewis Regenstein works with other leading conservation groups for the passage of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the largest lands protection bill ever passed by Congress. Fund purchases its own piece of land in Texas, and starts the Black Beauty Ranch sanctuary for animals.