Greenpeace is
a non-governmental environmental organization with offices
in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The objective of the
environmental NGO is to protect and defend the environment, speaking
in different parts of the world where there are committed terrorist
attacks against Nature. Greenpeace runs campaigns to stop climate
change, protect biodiversity, for the non-use of GMOs, reduce
pollution, end the use of nuclear energy and weapons. Besides
protecting forests and natural landscapes.
The environmental
movement was born in 1971 when a group of American anti-nuclear
activists
formed a small
organization called Do not Make a Wave Committee (the Committee a
Tsunami not provoke) to prevent the United States carried out a
second nuclear test on Amchitka Archipelago (Alaska).
Although
there were many people involved in one way or another in the various
initial stages, the key people from the outset were Dorothy and
Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Bob
Hunter. The first board is formed by Stowe, Bohlen and future Olympic
medalist yachtsman Paul Côté.
Greenpeace is present
in five continents, but with little presence in Africa, limited to
working with social organizations and local communities affected by
pollution from toxic waste, over-fishing, illegal logging and climate
change.
Do you know that what
you are wearing at the moment has been
made by
really toxic materials? How does it affect to the enviroment? In
fact, Greenpeace has started to contribuit to stop the production
of clothing with these materials in 2014: British
luxury brand Burberry made a commitment to eliminate the use of
hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 1 January
2020. Burberry's move
comes after just two weeks of people-powered campaigning on the
brand's social media channels, reaching an audience of millions,
while Greenpeace volunteers held protests at stores from Beijing to
Mexico City. Burberry joins 18 big brands like Zara, Valentino and
H&M who have committed to Detox their clothes and manufacturing
processes.
AMAZONE
The Amazon is a vast
and majestic rainforest teeming with an estimated quarter of all
known land species. The jaguar, the pink river dolphin, the sloth,
the world's largest flower, a monkey the size of a toothbrush and a
spider the size of a baseball are just a few of the species that we
know about - there are many more yet to be discovered.
It
is also home to over 20 million people including hundreds of
indigenous peoples, some of which have never been contacted by the
‘outside world’.
And
finally, the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon,
helping to stabilise the planet's climate.
However, we are
destroying it with deforestation...
POLAR OCEANS
The Arctic and the
Antarctic, two of the greatest wilderness areas on Earth with
ecosystems vital to the functioning of our planet, are under assault
from the impacts of rapidly accelerating climate change,
industrialization, and the unchecked consumption of our planet's
resources.
The poles are
indicators of the planet's health and provide early warning that we
are compromising the Earth´s ability to sustain life as we know it.
It is already too late to avoid profound negative changes at the
poles, but we can limit the damage by establishing boundaries that
stop the commercial fishing fleets and the oil and gas industries
from plundering and polluting these already damaged ecosystems.
Greenpeace exists
because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It
needs change. It needs action.
