Greenpeace is an international environmental organization that is
financially and politically independent with
offices in over forty countries. The organization was founded in 1971 in
Vancouver, Canada to face the U.S' nuclear testing in Alaska.
Currently Greenpeace is working to protect the environment
.Greenpeace's international
coordinating body is in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With offices in over 40 countries, hundreds of experts and
almost 3 million supporters Greenpeace members have serious political influence.
They’re concerned about the overfishing, global warming, commercial whale hunting deforestation
and anti- nuclear issues. Greenpeace organization is
represented in countries like Poland, Norway, USA, Japan, China and Italy. The most important goals in their
campaign are:
- protection of forests
- protection of the oceans
- stop whale hunting
- they are against nuclear energy and
for promoting renewable energy
- they are also against genetic engineering
- eliminating the use of toxic chemicals
As you can see, only three
of African countries have Greenpeace offices.
Do you know why? If you
do, please leave a comment in the comment section below.
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