Our history, victories and successes
For over fifty years – on all continents and oceans – together we have spoken truth to power, borne witness, stopped, blocked and placed our bodies in the way of environmental destruction.
![Soviet Whaling Action in North Pacific © Greenpeace / Rex Weyler](https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/2017/11/GP03HI2-1024x694.jpg)
We have investigated and documented ecological contamination and crime. We have conducted scientific studies, litigated and lobbied. We have tried, failed and tried again. We have also succeeded!
Our founders
There’s a joke that in any bar in Vancouver, Canada, you can sit down next to someone who claims to have founded Greenpeace. In fact, there was no single founder: name, idea, spirit and tactics can all be said to have separate lineages.
Yet, some people clearly stand out.