The work of Greenpeace

The hunters were killing whales in all places of the world. The forests were disappearing slowly, consumed by fire. The nature screamed for help. This is how a group of people formed Greenpeace.

This is a non-governmental environmental organization (ONG). It was founded in 1962, in Canada. The organization is present in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. They want to expose environmental criminals, and to challenge government and corporations when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard our environment and our future.

Greenpeace focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and anti-nuclear issues. It uses direct action, lobbying, and research to achieve its goals. The global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations, or political parties, relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation grants.

The last achievement was in October of this year.  Greenpeace made ​​the campaign "Save the Arctic" which sought the Lego brand ended its contract with Shell, to stop oil pollution in that area. Finally, Greenpeace managed to protect and finish this problem.

Also, Greenpeace did an advertence to Mattel because they were responsible for deforestation in Indonesia. The transnational Mattel pledged to stop buying paper and packaging from the destruction of tropical forests this country.

The actions for this organization are diverse.  For this reason, is very important to learn the relevance of Greenpeace.  They try to help in every space of the nature and assistance the necessity of the planet.