Greenpeace Australia Pacific
| Greenpeace Australia Pacific | |
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| founding | 1977 |
| Seat | Australia , Pacific |
| main emphasis | Environment protection , peace |
| method | Nonviolence , lobbying , research , innovation |
| Action space | Pacific, Australia |
| Managing directors | Linda Selvey |
| sales | AUD 13 million (2005) |
| Website | www.greenpeace.org.au |
Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP) is part of the global environmental organization Greenpeace based in Sydney , Australia . The GPAP is one of the largest environmental organizations in Australia.
Origin and formation
The forerunner of Greenpeace in Australia is said to be the La Flor , a ship that Rolf Heimann renamed Greenpeace IV and steered in 1974 from Melbourne in Australia via New Zealand towards Mururoa . Heimann, a book author and artist from Dresden, intended to protest against the first French nuclear test taking place this year , but the ship did not arrive there until the French test had already taken place in the atmosphere.
The activist group Whale and Dolphin Coalition was founded in 1977 by the Australian photographer Jonny Lewis in Sydney and the French businessman Jean-Paul Fortom-Gouin , who had been invited by the Canadian Bob Hunter (co-founder of Greenpeace and its first president), and his wife Bobbi, the first Greenpeace Treasurer.
In 1977 the environmental organization Greenpeace Australia was founded. The first nonviolent action began on August 28, 1977 against the last Australian whaling station near Albany , the Cheyne Beach Whaling Station . Over the next three weeks Lewis, Fortom-Gouin, Bob Hunter and the Australians Tom Barber and Allan Simmons sat in a Zodiac inflatable boat , up to 30 nautical miles from the coast, between the harpoons of three whaling ships that were hunting sperm whales . There were two near collisions, but there were no injuries.
The Whale and Dolphin Coalition was transformed into Greenpeace Australia by the animal rights activist Richard Jones, who registered it, and the Sydney journalist Jodi Adams, who became the first Greenpeace coordinator in Australia . The organization's first asset was the Zodiac from the Albany campaign.
The last whale harpooned by Australians was a female sperm whale hunted by the Cheynes Beach Waling Company on November 20, 1978. When that happened, Greenpeace ended their campaign the next day. In 1979, Australia ratified the international treaties against whaling, ending whaling in Australian waters.
GPAP has also been involved in Australia- wide actions against Australia's uranium mining and exports in the past and has been involved in numerous nature, marine and environmental campaigns to this day.
Merger and campaigns since 1998
In early 1998, Greenpeace Australia and Greenpeace Pacific merged into Greenpeace Australia Pacific .
The GPAP “fights” against nuclear weapons and nuclear energy , deforestation , the use of genetic engineering in nature, climate change , environmental toxins , and the use of bottom trawls and overfishing . She uses the tactic of nonviolent direct action in order to generate awareness for the threatened environment and to propose solutions.
Alternative proposals from Greenpeace relate to renewable energy , forest protection, the establishment of marine reserves , protection of biodiversity and the creation of national and international rules against environmental degradation . Above all, Greenpeace is actively committed to saving the whales.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Heimann on daao.org.au , in English, accessed 2 February 2012
- ↑ www.jonnylewis.org
- ↑ a b c thelastwhale.wordpress.com : The Last Whale . Retrieved February 2, 2012
- ↑ www.seashepherd.org : Eulogy for Robert Hunter - 1941-2005 , May 19, 2005, accessed February 2, 2012
- ↑ jonnylewis.org : Jonny Lewis , (co-founder of Greenpeace Australia), in English, accessed February 2
- ↑ Chris Pash: The Last Whale . Freemantle Press, North Fremantle, WA 2008, ISBN 9781921361326 , p. 218 p ..
- ↑ environment.gov.au : Whaling: History of whaling in Australia , accessed February 3, 2012
- ↑ greenpeace.org/australia : Nuclear . Retrieved February 3, 2012
- ↑ greenpeace.org : What we do . Retrieved February 3, 2012