Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand

Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand

Infobox_Company | company_name = Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand
company_
company_type = Non-Governmental Organisation
company_slogan = n/a.
foundation = 1974, Auckland
location = Auckland, New Zealand
key_people =
industry = environmentalism
products = Lobbying, research, consultancy.
revenue = $3.5 Million NZD (2005)
num_employees = "40?"
homepage = [http://www.greenpeace.org.nz/ www.greenpeace.org.nz/]

Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand (GPNZ) is one of New Zealand's largest environmental organisations, and is a member organisation of the Greenpeace international network.

History

Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand was founded in 1974, two years after the original Greenpeace, to protect the natural environment.

Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand emerged from an amalgam of 1960’s and 1970’s NZ peace groups and activists, who had for a decade been actively promoting their opposition to the Vietnam War and nuclear testing. In particular, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (NZ) who were nationally campaigning against French nuclear testing in French Polynesia since 1961, culminating in a 80,238 signed petition presented to the New Zealand Government in 1962 demanding they take punitive action against the French to enforce a nuclear test ban in the pacific. [ [http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Christchurch/PeaceCity/RoadToPeace.asp Peace City - Road to Peace - Christchurch City Council ] ] Other groups in the peace collective included the NZ Peace Media, NZ Friends of the Earth, the Auckland Peace Squadron and Project Jonah. [ Making Waves the Greenpeace New Zealand Story by Michael Szabo ISBN 0 7900 0230 2]

There were two key developments in the New Zealand peace movement in 1974. The first was the official formation of the Greenpeace Foundation of New Zealand in April through the union of a collective of peace groups and their supporters. The second was the decision to send the yacht Fri on an epic voyage around the Pacific carrying the peace message to all nuclear weapons states. Fri’s Pacific Peace Odyssey, a 25,000 mile adventure across the Pacific and Indian Oceans was partially financed and co-ordinated by Greenpeace New Zealand and would last till 1977. [ Making Waves the Greenpeace New Zealand Story by Michael Szabo ISBN 0 7900 0230 2]

Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand gained national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s for its action against nuclear testing in French Polynesia, and acquired huge public sympathy after the French bombing of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour in 1985. The long campaign against whaling championed by Greenpeace is an issue which has had the full support of the New Zealand Government since the mid 1980s.

Campaigns

Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand 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.

Greenpeace mission statement

*To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not solicit or accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties.
*Greenpeace does not seek or accept donations that could compromise its independence, aims, objectives or integrity.
*Greenpeace relies on grant-support from foundations and the voluntary donations of individual supporters.
*Greenpeace is committed to the principles of non-violence, political independence and internationalism.
*Greenpeace is non-party political, it does not align itself with any political party. In exposing threats to the environment and in working to find solutions, Greenpeace claims that it has no permanent allies or enemies.

References

ee also

*New Zealand's nuclear-free zone
*Fri (yacht)
*Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (NZ)
*Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand - New Zealand's other large environmental organisation.
*New Zealand's nuclear-free zone
*Peace Movement Aotearoa
*Greenpeace

External links

* [http://www.greenpeace.org.nz Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand]
* [http://www.greenpeace.org Greenpeace International]


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