In June 1995, Greenpeace took a trunk of a tree from the forests of the proposed national park of Koitajoki in Ilomantsi, Finland and put it on display at exhibitions held in Austria and Germany.

The park manager of Tubbataha appreciated the quick action Greenpeace took to assess the damage to the reef.

Environmental organisations including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, took the by-now renamed Department for Transport to the High Court, stating that the road was against the government's own environmental protection laws.

Greenpeace took its campaign to major food retailers and quickly won agreement from McDonald's along with UK-retailers Asda, Waitrose, and Marks & Spencer to stop buying meat raised on Amazonian soya.

Melchett severed his ties with Greenpeace in 2002 when he took up a part-time consultancy with industry PR company Burson-Marsteller.

The following year she took part in a protest organized by Greenpeace at the French embassy in Rome against the decision of the French government to pursue nuclear experiments at Mururoa.

Lobbying at the 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and key European countries such as Denmark, led to a decision to adopt the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.

In response, Greenpeace projected an image of the flag onto the castle and attempted to fly the flag from the building themselves.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

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 protest against Esso / ExxonMobil.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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.

Greenpeace uses direct action, lobbying and research to achieve its goals.

Greenpeace is a founding member of the INGO Accountability Charter ; an international non-governmental organization that intends to foster accountability and transparency of non-governmental organizations.

Greenpeace evolved from the peace movement and anti-nuclear protests in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the early 1970s.

On September 15, 1971, the newly founded Don't Make a Wave Committee sent a chartered ship, Phyllis Cormack, renamed Greenpeace for the protest, from Vancouver to oppose United States testing of nuclear devices in Amchitka, Alaska.

The Don't Make a Wave Committee subsequently adopted the name Greenpeace.

In a few years, Greenpeace spread to several countries and started to campaign on other environmental issues such as commercial whaling and toxic waste.

In the late 1970s, the different regional Greenpeace groups formed Greenpeace International to oversee the goals and operations of the regional organizations globally.

Greenpeace received international attention during the 1980s when the French intelligence agency bombed the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, one of the most well-known vessels operated by Greenpeace, killing one individual.

In the following years, Greenpeace evolved into one of the largest environmental organizations in the world.

Greenpeace is known for its direct actions and has been described as the most visible environmental organization in the world.

Greenpeace has raised environmental issues to public knowledge, and influenced both the private and the public sector.

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.

According to the current Greenpeace web page, the founders were Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Robert Hunter.

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

Beginning in 1986, " London Greenpeace ", a small environmental campaigning group ( not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too " centralised and mainstream for their tastes "), distributed a pamphlet entitled What ’ s wrong with McDonald ’ s: Everything they don ’ t want you to know.

Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, in answer to a question from Greenpeace, told the Company ’ s Annual General Meeting in Lausanne on 15 April 2010 that in 2009 Nestlé used 320, 000 tonnes of palm oil worldwide, comparing this with the 500, 000 tonnes of palm oil used for biodiesel in Germany and Italy alone.

In 1995 they supported Greenpeace, the campaign Ärzte gegen Atomkrieg ( IPPNW: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ), Aktion Atomteststop ( an initiative for a nuclear test ban ), the BUND ( Friends of the Earth, Germany ) and they were featured on the track Tout Pour Sauver L ’ Amour ( Everything to save love ) on the Stop Chirac compilation album.

Adding to this, a Greenpeace investigation brought to light that McKinsey ’ s advice does not only fail to address some of the main drivers of deforestation such as logging and mining, but that the company ’ s proposals would actually reward those industries.

Greenpeace pointed out that if McKinsey ’ s recommendations were followed, large-scale monoculture plantations would expand into ecologically important areas.

PIW ’ s attack on Greenpeace was also taken up by Californian Republican Assemblyman Ray Haynes, who urged that State Attorney-General Lockyer prosecute Greenpeace under various laws, including the state's unfair-business-practice law.

In May 2004 under interim Executive Director Lewis Fein, PIW were targeting Greenpeace once more claiming that they had found what they claimed was the ‘ secret ’ location of the Greenpeace actions warehouse in Washington, D. C.

In a letter to the editor in the Washington Times, Greenpeace ’ s operations manager, Bill Richardson, ridiculed PIW ’ s claim that the warehouse location was secret.

In 2005, Gorton ’ s came under attack from the Environmental Investigation Agency, The Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS ) and Greenpeace, due to their parent company ’ s involvement in whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

Greenpeace hailed this as a victory and the boycott of Gorton ’ s ended.

At a joint news conference in Washington DC, Greenpeace and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the world ’ s largest tissue-product manufacturer, announced an historic agreement that will ensure greater protection and sustainable management of Canada's Boreal Forest and other ancient forests around the world.

Environmental action groups such as Greenpeace attribute such low life expectancy to high levels of persistent organic chemicals, particularly dioxins.

In 2005, an article published by Greenpeace International stated that “ the tasty dark violet wine of açaí is the most important non-wood forest product in terms of money from the river delta of the Amazon .” A 2008 Los Angeles Times article noted that while acai has been acclaimed by some sources as a renewable resource that can provide a sustainable livelihood for subsistence harvesters without damaging the Amazon Rainforest, conservationists worry that acai could succumb to the destructive agribusiness model of clear-cut lands, sprawling plantations, and liberal application of pesticides and fertilizer.