Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand
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Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand (GPNZ) is one of New Zealand largest environmental organisations, and is a member organisation of the Greenpeace international network.
Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand was founded in 1974, two years after the original Greenpeace, to protect the natural environment. It gained national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s for its action against nuclear testing in French Polynesia, and gathered huge public sympathy after the French bombing of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour in 1985. The campaign against whaling was also very successful, and the issue has had the full support of the New Zealand Government since the mid 1980s.
The organisation also campaigns against nuclear weapons and nuclear power, deforestation, the release of genetically engineered organisms into the natural environment, climate change, and toxics. 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.
See also
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand - New Zealand's other large environmental organisation.
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