Kieran Mulvaney has written more than 200 articles on science and the environment for publications including The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, New Scientist, and E magazine and is a contributor to the Discovery Channel Online. Mulvaney is the founding director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, and author of At The Ends of the Earth (Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001). He is currently editor of Ocean Update. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
Despite a decades-long international moratorium on commercial whaling, one fleet has continued to hunt and kill whales in the waters surrounding Antarctica. Refusing to let this defiance go unchallenged, the environmental organization Greenpeace began dispatching expeditions to the region in an effort to intercept the whalers and use nonviolent means to stop their lethal practice.
Over the past decade, Kieran Mulvaney led four such expeditions as a campaigner and coordinator.