Hardy Jones

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Hardy Jones is a wildlife and conservation filmmaker. He began his career in radio at WNOE in New Orleans and has worked for United Press International, The Peruvian Times, and CBS News. He has been a television documentary producer since 1978 when he made his first film, entitled DOLPHIN, with Michael Wiese. The film depicts a school of spotted dolphins residing 40 miles north of Grand Bahama island. Since 1978 Jones has returned countless times to the Bahamas to visit these dolphins and film them. Some of the dolphins have become internationally famous. Chopper, a 27 year old male, was filmed by Jones for the first time in 1979 and appeared in the 2005 PBS film The Dolphin Defender. ^[1]

In 2000, Jones joined film actor and ocean activist Ted Danson and founded BlueVoice.org (a website dedicated to the protection of dolphins and whales and particularly stopping the hunting of dolphins in Japanese fishing villages). ^[2] The organization uses television and the internet to publicize ocean issues. One of the group's main concerns is the alarming level of contamination in the oceans - bio-accumulating in the foodweb from plankton to fish, marine mammals, then humans.

Jones has fought for nearly thirty years to stop the killing and capture of dolphins in Japan.

He is an alumni at New Canaan Country School and recently received the prestigous alumni award.