Our History & Successes
The Greenpeace story begins in 1971. A small group of volunteers organised a concert to raise funds to sail a boat from Vancouver to Amchitka to protest against US militarism and the testing of nuclear weapons. Today Greenpeace operates in over 55 countries, funded by donations from over 4 million individual supporters. We share the same core values of non-violence, bearing witness, personal action, and independence – since our founding days.
Since the late 1990’s, Greenpeace had been actively campaigning on illegal logging in the Congo Basin Forest in Central Africa. Officially, Greenpeace Africa was established with its office opening in Johannesburg in November 2008.