Who are Greenpeace?
Greenpeace is a global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by saving the world one step at a time.
Who founded greenpeace?
Robert Hunter was the founder of Greenpeace.
Why was it founded?
To help fight against environmental destruction, including the end of nuclear contamination. It was set up when in 1971 when a boat of volunteers and journalists sailed into north Alaska where the US government was doing underground nuclear tests.
Where was it founded?
It was founded in the United States.
What does greenpeace want to do for Antarctica?
For the past 30 years, Greenpeace has campaigned for Antarctica to be permanently and legally protected from exploitation. The campaign started in the early 1980s in response to the threat of increased levels of fishing exploitation and the possibility of mining on the continent. In January 1992, after five years of operation, Greenpeace dismantled and completely removed World Park Base. The base’s primary purpose,to highlight environmental violations in the Antarctic, was achieved when Treaty nations agreed to the Protocol on Environmental Protection. This agreement came at the end of years of hard campaigning. Not only did it provide a framework for sound management of Antarctica as a natural reserve, devoted to peace and science, but it also bans mining in Antarctica for at least 50 years.
World Park Base
World Park Base was a non-governmental year-round Antarctic base located at Cape Evanson Ross Islandin the Ross Dependency. The international environmental organization Greenpeace established World Park Base in 1987 in order to press its demand for the Antarctic Treaty nations to declare all of the continent of Antarctica a World Park. This would make the entire continent off-limits to commercial exploitation and pollution, and permit only limited scientific research. Greenpeace closed down and completely dismantled the base in 1992.The official attitude amongst the Antarctic Treaty nations was that World Park Base was to be ignored and that no assistance be given to it, although New Zealand, which claims jurisdiction over Ross Dependency (though all territorial claims are in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty), would have assisted if a life-threatening situation arose.
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