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No nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights.

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Following intense negotiation, the Australian government declares the world's largest "no-take" marine reserve at Heard Island. Greenpeace began campaigning for the reserve in 2000.

The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Mekere Morauta, publicly states: "... the Kiunga-Aiambak project, involving Concord Pacific Ltd and a landowner company, should never have occurred". Greenpeace began campaigning to stop Kiunga Aiambak in the mid-1990s.

Following three years of Greenpeace lobbying, the Federal government nominates patagonian toothfish for listing under appendix II of CITES.

Greenpeace launches the inaugural True Food Guide, which gives food companies a "green, "orange" or "red" status, according to their stance on genetically engineered ingredients. All 500,000 copies of the guide were snapped up in two months.

Six companies – Three Threes, Sargents, Murray Goulburn, Sakata Rice Snacks, Spring Gully Pickles and Weis declare their products are free of GE derived ingredients and are moved from the True Food Guide's "red" category to the "green".

A national poll conducted for Greenpeace by Taylor Nelson Sofres finds that 71% of Australians believe that ratifying the Kyoto Protocool would be in Australia's national interest.

More than 17,000 people sign a Greenpeace petition asking Federal minister, Kay Patterson to stop the construction of a second reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney.

A national poll by Taylor-Nelson-Sofres finds that 77% of Australians are opposed to the building of another nuclear reactor in Sydney whilst there is no solution to the nuclear waste problem.

Over 200,000 Australians sign on to Greenpeace and The Body Shop's international "Choose Positive Energy" petition, urging world leaders to commit to supplying renewable energy to the 2 billion people around the world who do not have access to modern energy supplies.