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What is Greenpeace？ Greenpeace is an independent, nonprofit, global campaigning organization that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes. Greenpeace’s goal is to ensure the ability of Earth to nurture life in all its diversity. Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action. When GREENPEACE started? In 1971, a small team of 12 activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada, in an old fishing boat. Their mission: to protest underground nuclear testing by the US military at Amchitka, a tiny volcanic island off western Alaska. Though they were eventually stopped, these activists went on to create an organization called Greenpeace, with the belief that individual, non-violent action can create positive change. Members Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This is A Map about the Structure and Management of Greenpeace worldwide. Greenpeace was started in Canada in 1971. Its East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997. Later, offices were formally opened in Guangzhou and Beijing in 2002. Greenpeace USA was founded in 1974, three years after the original Greenpeace, and is one of the United States largest environmental organizations. All the offices in different countries are connected to the international coordinating body. There is a Greenpeace International Annual General Meeting each year to establish the global principles an issues addressed by Greenpeace. Supporters and Funding Greenpeace receives its funding from individual supporters and foundations. This global organization does not accept funding from governments, corporations or political parties, but relying on 2.9 million individual supporters and foundation grants. Greenpeace does not accept money from governments, intergove