Greenpeace

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an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a balance between human progress and environmental conservation. Members take active but nonviolent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmental safety, such as the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea

Greenpeace

An organization devoted to environmental activism, founded in the United States and Canada in 1971. Greenpeace has employed passive resistance in opposition to commercial whaling, the dumping of toxic waste into the sea, and nuclear testing. It is an example of an NGO.

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Some conservationists, including the organisation Greenpeace, are concerned that the government's decision could be reversed by legal action by the mining companies.

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Ariana Densham, head of oceans at Greenpeace UK, said the consultation was "ultimately a long-overdue completion of a process started by the previous government".

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Energy Transfer, the company that led the project, filed a defamation suit accusing Greenpeace of violating trespassing and defamation laws and coordinating the protests.

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Greenpeace activists entered the Grevin Museum posing as tourists before changing their clothes, covering the statue with a blanket and taking it out through an emergency exit, a police source told French news agency AFP.

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Miroslava Abelova of Greenpeace Slovakia called the culling plan "completely reckless," accusing the government of ignoring conservation laws and scientific advice.

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