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'Greenpeace Australia Pacific' (GPAP) is one of Australia's largest environmental organisations, and is a member organisation of the Greenpeace international network.
In 1974 La Flor, from Melbourne, Australia, skippered by Rolf Heimann, a childrens' author set, out for Mururoa via New Zealand as Greenpeace IV but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year.
Greenpeace Australia was formally founded in 1977, 6 years after Greenpeace was founded to protect the natural environment. In early 1998 Greenpeace Australia and Greenpeace Pacific teamed up to become Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP). The campaign against whaling has been very successful, and the issue has had some support from the Australian Government since the late 1990s.
The organisation also campaigns against nuclear weapons and nuclear power, deforestation, the release of genetically engineered organisms into the natural environment, climate change, toxics, bottom trawling and overfishing. 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.
Solutions include clean energy, protection of ancient forests, establishment of marine reserves, protection of biodiversity and government and international regulation of environmentally destructive practices.

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★ Australian conservation Foundation

★ Nature Conservation Council of NSW

★ Environment Victoria

★ Conservation Council of Western Australia

★ GetUp

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★ Greenpeace Australia Pacific

★ Greenpeace International