Looking back on an incredible year for the environmental movement, here are some of the best images captured for Greenpeace in Canada and around the world in 2015.
Over 25000 citizens marched in Quebec City on April 11, 2015 calling on Premiers and the Federal Government to Act on Climate and say no to tar sands pipelines.
In May, kayactivists paddled in the “sHell No” Flotilla as nearly a thousand people from around the country gathered in Seattle's Elliott Bay to protest against Shell's Arctic drilling plans.
Jane Fonda, Rachel McAdams and Melina Laboucan-Massimo joined a beach-side celebration in June on the beautiful B.C. coastline to send a message to Stephen Harper that people - not oil - belong on these beaches.
Audrey Siegl, a Musqueam activist, drummer and singer from British Columbia stands in a Greenpeace rhib defiantly signalling Shell's subcontracted drilling rig, the Polar Pioneer, to stop.
In July, activists hung from the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregan to block a Shell icebreaker from passing under the bridge and joining Shell's Arctic drilling fleet.
In August, Greenpeace and the Waswanipi Cree First Nation deployed a giant banner on the shore of Quénonisca lake near the Broadback valley to bring attention to the struggle the Cree face in protecting their last intact forest from industrial logging.
One of Alberta’s biggest solar projects was built in one of the most unlikely places—the heart of Canada’s Peace River tar sands. This summer the community of Little Buffalo launched the inspiring 80-panel solar project in a bid to create more green jobs and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Albacore tuna is stacked and weighed before being shipped to American Samoa to be used for canned tuna. Greenpeace travelled into the Pacific in August to expose out of control tuna fisheries. Tuna fishing has been linked to shark finning, overfishing and human rights abuses.
Early September, the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, in front of Brede glacier in Viking bay on the east coast of Greenland.
A Greenpeace expedition onboard the Arctic Sunrise followed Norwegian company TGS Nopec as it conducted seismic blasting off North-East Greenland. Air guns emit blasts approximately eight times louder than a jet engine toward the seabed in order to find possible oil reservoirs. According to a scientific review, seismic blasting could seriously injure whales and other marine life in the Arctic.
In October, a group of children gather in a school playground where the air is engulfed with thick haze from the forest firest in the Central Kalimantan province on Borneo Island, Indonesia. The fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia as a result of human-caused fires started by palm oil and paper companies.
On November 29, 15,000 Canadians marched for peace and the climate in Ottawa (unceded Algonquin territory) as part of the Global Climate March ahead of the UN Climate Summit in Paris.
Hundreds of people promote 100% renewable energy and peace during the COP21 climate summit by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The summit resulted in the first agreement in history with commitments from all countries to reduce their emissions and fight a growing climate crisis.
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