Greenpeace The world's largest environmental campaign organization, with 2.8 million supporters registered in forty countries worldwide. It was founded in 1971 in British Columbia (Canada) to organize protests against US nuclear testing at Amchitka Island, Alaska. It has campaigned against nuclear testing, whaling, and the dumping of toxic and radioactive waste. Its methods have been direct and spectacular to attract maximum media attention, but always non-violent. Despite this, in 1985 its ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by French intelligence agents off New Zealand.
http:\\www.greenpeace.org The official website of Greenpeace.
How to cite this entry: "Greenpeace" A Dictionary of Contemporary World History. Jan Palmowski. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 8 January 2012
