“Whale Warriors” author to speak at Honors College lecture


WHAT: Sea life activist and author Peter Heller will deliver the Honors College Excellence Lecture for the spring semester. Heller will share stories from his experiences with the famed Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in a lecture titled “The Whale Warriors: A Journalist’s Voyage with the Eco-Pirates of Antarctic.” Heller will discuss his two months spent at sea aboard the eco-pirate ship Farley Mowat as it hunted down Japanese whaling fleets in Antarctica. The ship, part of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fleet made famous by the Whale Wars program seen on cable television’s Animal Planet, wielded a giant blade, called the Can Opener, on its bow to thwart commercial whaling ships off the brutally cold, rough Antarctic waters. He will also talk about his other activist efforts, including the 2007 protest demonstration with TV star Hayden Panettiere of the systematic slaughter of dolphins and small whales off a cove in Taiji, Japan, which is chronicled in the 2010 Academy Award-nominated documentary The Cove.

WHO: Peter Heller is an award-winning adventure writer and a contributing editor at Outside magazine and Men’s Journal. He is the author of The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet’s Largest Mammals.

WHEN AND WHERE: The lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 24th at 7:00 pm in the Wolfe University Center 155 at the Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC), 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami. The author will be speaking at the College of Business Complex 155 at 3:30 pm the next day at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami. A reception and book signing will follow each lecture.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call Juan Carlos Espinosa, associate dean at the Honors College, at (305)-348-4100 or e-mail espinosj@fiu.edu. 

Media Contact:  Lissette Lanza  at 305-348-2232.

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