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The Arctic is in danger. Its ice is retreating at an increasing speed, cleaning the path for greedy oil companies that see this catastrophe as a business opportunity. Native people traditional way of life and health will be at risk and wildlife are to be uselessly endangered in the name of a shortsighted idea of progress and growth. Canada is one of the Largest Arctic countries in the world, and as such it has a clear responsibility to take a precautionary approach for any new development. The Arctic campaign is a massive worldwide effort to ban all industrial extractive activities at the inhabitant area in the Arctic oceans Together we can save the Arctic.

Climate and Energy 

Climate change and the threats of nuclear energy are real. That is why Greenpeace works to bring about a clean and just energy future. Tar sands and nuclear development plague the ecosystems and communities they occupy with safety and health risks. The Energy [R]evolution is a set of ready-to-implement solutions that lead away from the dangers of climate chaos and nuclear meltdown. It is a vision of the clean and just energy future for everyone on the planet.

Forests

With 80 per cent of the planet's ancient forests already lost or degraded, the need for increased protection of the world’s remaining forests is more urgent than ever. Forests help stabilize the climate, sustain life, provide jobs, and are the source of culture for many Indigenous communities. Greenpeace opposes destructive and unsustainable development in the remaining ancient forests in Canada and globally. To effect positive change and put lasting solutions in place, we challenge the global marketplace, engage consumers, pressure governments and work with industry to protect the Boreal Forest, the Great Bear Rainforest and the Indonesian Rainforest.

Oceans

Life on our blue planet depends on healthy oceans, but recent reports warn that sea life  faces the next mass extinction. Next to climate change, overfishing is the single greatest threat to marine biodiversity. Industrial fishing has reduced populations of large, predatory fish  like tuna, cod and sharks by about ninety per cent in the last fifty years. Growing demand for seafood, wasteful fishing practices and mismanaged fish stocks and aquaculture operations are leading to broken links in marine food chains in Canadian waters and worldwide. Urgent action is needed to protect marine life and allow recovery. Greenpeace works to relieve pressure on ocean ecosystems and to establish a network of no-take marine reserves–ocean parks–covering 40 per cent of the world's oceans.

GMO Foods

Genetically engineered foods pose unknown risks to human health and could cause irreversible biological pollution. The government must better regulate this experimental industry and support sustainable, organic agriculture.

 

The latest updates

 

Siberian Oil Spill

Image gallery | June 10, 2013
Tar Sands Greenwash: Buying Ads is Easy

Tar Sands Greenwash: Buying Ads is Easy

Video | June 6, 2013 at 11:30

Help us laugh the Harper government's ad campaign to greenwash the tar sands right off the air by sharing with your friends and signing the petition at stopgreenwash.ca The Harper government currently plans to spend $16 million of...

Voices of the Great Bear Rainforest: Terry & Jude

Voices of the Great Bear Rainforest: Terry & Jude

Video | June 4, 2013 at 9:00

This third installment of “Voices of the Great Bear Rainforest” features naturalists Terry Brown and Jude Abrams, both activists during the early days of the blockades to stop industrial logging in the rainforest. Become captivated as the couple...

Ride for Renewables 2013

Ride for Renewables 2013

Image | May 26, 2013 at 10:30

Greenpeace activists, green energy supporters and cyclists joined the “Ride for Renewables” and rode from the Pickering nuclear station to the Darlington one, to say “no” to nuclear energy and yes to conservation and green energy.

Paula Bear opposes Arctic drilling in Canada

Paula Bear opposes Arctic drilling in Canada

Image | May 15, 2013 at 11:00

Greenpeace volunteers bring a life-like polar bear to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on the same day Canada begins its two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council. The polar bear stands by a banner reading “Harper: Arctic drilling = spilling.”

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