Greenpeace Australia Pacific
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| Type | Non-Governmental Organisation |
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| Founded | year, Australia |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
| Key people | [[]] |
| Industry | environmentalism |
| Products | Lobbying, research, consultancy. |
| Revenue | $13 Million AUD (2005) |
| Employees | 65? |
| Slogan | Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent direct action to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity. |
| Website | www.greenpeace.org.au/ |
Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP) is one of Australia's largest environmental organisations, and is a member organisation of the Greenpeace international network.
GPAP was founded in ?, ? years after the original Greenpeace, to protect the natural environment. The campaign against whaling has been very successful, and the issue has had some support from the Australian Government since the late 1990s(?).
The organisation also campaigns against nuclear weapons and nuclear power, deforestation, the release of genetically engineered organisms into the natural environment, climate change, toxics, bottom trawling and overfishing. It uses tactics of non-violent direct action to draw attention to what it considers significant threats to the environment, and then lobbies for solutions.
Solutions include clean energy, protection of ancient forests, establishment of marine reserves, protection of biodiversity and government and international regulation of environmentally destructive practices.
[edit] See also
- Australian conservation Foundation
- Nature Conservation Council of NSW
- Environment Victoria
- Conservation Council of Western Australia
- GetUp
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