Greenpeace has also been a source of controversy ; its motives and methods have received criticism and the organization's direct actions have sparked legal actions against Greenpeace activists.

Amchitka, the 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace has been published by Greenpeace in November 2009 on CD and is also available as mp3 download via the Amchitka concert website.

Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block the oil sand operations at Athabasca, Canada.

Adam Woolf from Greenpeace also stated that, " fifty years ago there were many experts who would be lined up and swear there was no link between smoking and bad health.

Greenpeace, together with other environmental NGOs, also campaigned for ten years for the EU to ban import of illegal timber.

Greenpeace also highlighted that Metsähallitus admitted the value of the forest afterwards as Metsähallitus currently refers to Koitajoki as a distinctive area because of its old growth forests.

Greenpeace has also supported the rejection of GM food from the US in famine-stricken Zambia as long as supplies of non-genetically engineered grain exist, stating that the US " should follow in the European Union's footsteps and allow aid recipients to choose their food aid, buying it locally if they wish.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

The regional boards also appoint a trustee to The Greenpeace International Annual General Meeting, where the trustees elect or remove the board of directors of Greenpeace International.

The role of the annual general meeting is also to discuss and decide the overall principles and strategically important issues for Greenpeace in collaboration with the trustees of regional offices and Greenpeace International board of directors.

Foundation donations are also rejected if the foundations attach unreasonable conditions, restrictions or constraints on Greenpeace activities or if the donation would compromise the independence and aims of Greenpeace.

In 1989 Greenpeace commissioned a replacement vessel, also named the Rainbow Warrior ( also referred as Rainbow Warrior II ), which was retired from service on the 16th of August 2011 to be replaced by the third Rainbow Warrior.

Greenpeace activists have also been targets of phone tapping, death threats, violence and even state terrorism in the case of bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

I am also a co-founder of Greenpeace and I have known Patrick Moore for 35 years .[...

He also accused Greenpeace of having unofficial agreements with polluting companies where the companies paid Greenpeace to keep them from attacking the company's image.

Greenpeace also quotes Tongan parliamentarian Samiu K Vaipulu as saying at a workshop on the proposed South Pacific Whale Sanctuary in Samoa that Japan had linked whale votes to aid.

Greenpeace states its goal is to " ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity " and focuses its campaigning on world wide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling and anti-nuclear issues.

The book The Greenpeace Story states that the founders were Irving Stowe, Jim Bohlen and Paul Cote, a law student and peace activist.

" Another Greenpeace study states that, between 1997 and 2008, Koch Industries donated nearly $ 48 million to groups which doubt or oppose the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

The Greenpeace website states that on 14 October 2011, it launched a new vessel called Rainbow Warrior III.

Some of the first Greenpeace meetings were held there, and it served as the first office of the Greenpeace Foundation.

By 1977 there were 15 to 20 Greenpeace groups around the world.

In Philadelphia, in 2006, Greenpeace issued a press release that said " In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE ," The final report warned of plane crashes and reactor meltdowns.

A French journalist under the pen name Olivier Vermont wrote in his book La Face cachée de Greenpeace (" The Hidden Face of Greenpeace ") that he had joined Greenpeace France and had worked there as a secretary.

In Chile, the organization is affiliated as " Greenpeace Chile " was founded in 1981 and is a government recognized NGO there.

" The origin of the drawing, posted on the internet by Greenpeace, is uncertain, and there is no accompanying explanation.

Greenpeace is using " open campaign " as part of its activism effort, with the willingness to be transparent down to the merest tactical details, although there may be some situations where some of these are hidden to provide some element of surprise.

As of April 2008 there are no high seas marine reserves, but Greenpeace is campaigning for the " doughnut holes " of the western pacific to be declared as marine reserves.

At a 2007 Greenpeace event in Anchorage, Alaska, Panettiere defended aboriginal whaling, saying that there is a difference between commercial whaling and the whaling practiced by aboriginal tribes in the United States.

The Russian government claims that there has been no discernible increase in radiation levels, while Greenpeace accuses the government of denial.

As of April 2008 there are no high seas marine reserves, but Greenpeace is campaigning for the " doughnut holes " of the western pacific to be declared as marine reserves.

Although Greenpeace quoted Shell's own estimate of the amount of heavy metals and other chemicals on board, they claimed there were more than 5, 500 tonnes of oil on the Spar – far more than Shell's estimate of 50 tonnes.

One way to avoid the stigma of an " ism " was to evolve early anti-nuclear groups into the more scientific Green Parties, sprout new NGOs such as Greenpeace and Earth Action, and devoted groups to protecting global biodiversity and preventing global warming and climate change.

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

Greenpeace used to list Moore among " founders and first members " of The Don't Make a Wave Committee but has later stated that while Moore was a significant early member, he was not a founder.

The ship was renamed Greenpeace for the protest after a term coined by activist Bill Darnell.

While the organization was founded under a different name in 1970 and was officially named Greenpeace in 1972, the organization itself dates its birth to the first protest of 1971.

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

At the same time the Canadian Greenpeace office was heavily in debt.

Greenpeace was one of the first parties to formulate a sustainable development scenario for climate change mitigation, which it did in 1993.

Greenpeace was one of the leading participants advocating early phase-out of ozone depleting substances in the Montreal Protocol.

Greenpeace did not admit fault, stating that a Kazakhstan doctor had said that the child's condition was due to nuclear testing.

According to a Greenpeace spokesman, the memo was a joke that was accidentally released.

Greenpeace was awarded € 500, 000 in damages.

Greenpeace said in a press conference that the tree was originally from a logged area in the ancient forest which was supposed to be protected.

Metsähallitus accused Greenpeace of theft and said that the tree was from a normal forest and had been left standing because of its old age.

" Concerning the decision of Zambia, Greenpeace has stated that, " it was obvious to us that if no non-GM aid was being offered then they should absolutely accept GM food aid.