Joan McIntyre (activist)
Joan McIntyre (December 19, 1931 – June 22, 2016), also known as
Joana McIntyre Varawa, was an American author and anti-whaling activist. A high-ranking member of
Friends of the Earth in the early 1970s, she founded
Project Jonah in 1974 to give focus on the specific goal of preventing
whaling. After several successful and unsuccessful campaigns, she left the organization in 1983 due to excessive conflicts and politicking and later moved to
Fiji.
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