Greenpeace Canada

Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:

Creating an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.
Protecting the world's ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend on them.
Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.
Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.

Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.
Greenpeace was founded in Vancouver in 1971, when a small boat of volunteers and journalists sailed into Amchitka, an area north of Alaska where the US Government was conducting underground nuclear tests. This tradition of 'bearing witness' in a non-violent manner continues, and our ships are an important part of all our campaign work.

Greenpeace today operates in more than 40 countries with headquarters in Amsterdam. We have more than 90,000 supporters in Canada and 2.9 millions members worldwide, and represent them at virtually every international environmental conference.