Chapter 6
Miscellaneous Organizations
Greenpeace
Greenpeace based in Amsterdam (Netherlands) is an international organization working in the field of protecting and conserving global environmental. This was started in 1971 when a group of activists started from Vancouver, Canada in old shipping boat to witness to US underground nuclear testing at Amchitka. Although their boat was intercepted before going to the destination, this idea generated large scale public interest, nuclear testing was stopped at that place and the island was declared bird sanctuary.
Greenpeace is working in the areas of catalysing an energy revolution to tackle the problem of climate change which is the biggest threat to our planet. It is working to defend oceans and world’s ...
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