
Year
1971
In 1971, members of Greenpeace’s precursor, the Don’t Make the Wave Committee, attempted to sail a fishing boat from Vancouver into a United States nuclear testing site at Amchitka, Alaska. Although the voyage was not successful, it generated public interest in the group. Greenpeace linked peace with environmental issues and campaigned against nuclear testing in the Pacific, the seal hunt, whaling, and clear-cut logging.