About us

If the history of our planet is compressed into a single year, Homo sapiens would have emerged in the evening of December 31. Ancient civilizations appeared only 36 seconds ago, and we are 12 seconds away from the birth of Christ. However, over the last half second mankind managed to invent a nuclear bomb, mustard gas, plastic bottle, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, antipersonnel mine, and to destroy most forests on the planet. Today accumulated radioactive waste alone is sufficient for 15 thousand future generations, while the known human civilizations go back only 300 generations. We alone can guarantee that there will be “a new year to come”.

Greenpeace has been campaigning since 1971, when it was formed with a team of activists who wanted to make a difference and promote solutions to environmental problems by setting an example, protesting and “bearing witness” to environmental crimes. Today the organization is and strong world power with a support from more than 2.5 million people, 15 thousand of them in Russia. This enables us to put pressure on governments and companies and maintain our independence. Greenpeace currently has a presence in 41 countries.

Greenpeace is a non-governmental non-profit organization. It unites people of all nations, colors and languages. We all share a passion, which became our profession, and a mission – to ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity.

From the very beginning of its campaigning up to this day Greenpeace has strictly adhered these principles:

Independence – Greenpeace relies on voluntary donations from individual supporters and foundation grants, but it does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties. Greenpeace does not support any political party. Nevertheless, we carry on dialogue with all powers and promote decisions and laws to protect the environment.

Nonviolence –Greenpeace uses non-violent confrontation to achieve its goals. All our actions are exceptionally peaceful protests. We never spill paints on fur coats, nor ravage offices, nor break shop windows.

Active protest – Protest demonstrations is the first thing people think of when Greenpeace is mentioned. This is one of the methods to draw public attention to an environmental problem and to lobby for necessary changes, but it can’t be considered as the only instrument for our campaigns. Non-violence is an important principle of our protests.

Bearing witness – Our objective is to go to places of ecological crime and to provide the public with independent and reliable information.

A Greenpeace office in our country was established in 1989 and since 1992 we call ourselves/were given a name of Greenpeace Russia. In 2001 our branch was opened in Saint Petersburg.

In Russia Greenpeace campaigns
to save the last remaining spots of intact nature,
to confront nuclear danger,
to eliminate threats of chemical and genetic contamination,
to save forests and Lake Baikal.

Greenpeace Russia has 15 thousand supporters who share our values and donate to our work. Our activists use their skills and experience to participate in our campaigns. Together we can save our planet for future generations!

Remember “The Little Prince”: “When you've finished washing up in the morning, then it is time to clean up our planet”. Why should so many people fail to understand this? In the rush of big cities, at business negotiations and unprecedented sales, in multi-kilometer traffic jams and in the stuffy atmosphere of fashionable clubs they have forgotten what we live for. Who are we on this planet of people? Why, being a part of the human community, do we feel so lonely? And only “the Earth helps us to understand ourselves…”.

We are Greenpeace Russia