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GREENPEACE

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 41 countries and headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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GREENPEACE - OBJECTIVE

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: Catalyzing an energy revolution to address the

number one threat facing our planet: climate change.Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and

destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.

Protecting the world’s remaining ancient forests which are depended on by many animals, plants and people.

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Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence on finite resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.

Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.

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Ships

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WHAT IS THE RAINBOW WARRIOR?

The two ships renamed, Rainbow Warrior, and purchased by the environmental organization Greenpeace have been active supporting a number of Greenpeace protest activities against seal hunting, whaling and nuclear weapons testing during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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THE FIRST RAINBOW WARRIOR

The Rainbow Warrior (sometimes unofficially named Rainbow Warrior I) created in 1955, was a former UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and bought by Greenpeace in 1978

(1955 – 1977)

(1978 – 1985)

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THE SECOND RAINBOW WARRIOR

She was built from the hull of the deep sea fishing ship Grampian Fame, which had been built in Selby, North Yorkshire and launched in 1957.

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Greenpeace gave the vessel new masts, a gaff rig, a new engine and a number of environmentally low-impact systems to handle waste, heating and hot water. She was officially re-launched in Hamburg on July 10, 1989, the fourth anniversary of the sinking of her predecessor, the original Rainbow Warrior.

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VIDEOS

A Video promotion for new Rainbow Warrior

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2upN9aXnhY