Rex Weyler

Rex Weyler ( born September 10, 1947 in Denver, Colorado ) is an American- Canadian ecologist, author, journalist and Greenpeace activist.

Weyler studied at the Occidental College in Los Angeles theoretical physics, mathematics, engineering and history. In 1969, he and 41 fellow students were suspended for a semester because they had organized a sit-in against requisitions of the U.S. military on campus. Weyler did not return back to the university, but began to travel, take pictures and have already been published in 1969 with David Totheroh his first book, I Took a Walk Today, a pacifist discourse with photographs from a winter in Yosemite Valley.

Between 1973 and 1982, Weyler served as a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, as a photographer, reporter and editor of Greenpeace ' Chronicles magazine. In 1979 he was co-founder of Greenpeace International.

1975 Weyler went with the first anti -whaling campaign by Greenpeace. His photographs and reports published by the early actions in National Geographic, Smithsonian, New York Times Magazine and other publications around the world. His book The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay belonged in 1990 to the nominated titles at the Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize.