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Greenpeace Australia Pacific (GPAP) is the regional office of the global environmental organization Greenpeace. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is one of Australia's largest environmental organisations. ==Origins and formation== In 1974 the ship ''La Flor'', from Melbourne, Australia, skippered by Rolf Heimann, a children's author, set out for Mururoa via New Zealand as ''Greenpeace IV'' but arrived after the final nuclear test for the year.La Flor is still with us, currently being restored and refitted at Goolwa in South Australia. An activist group, the Whale and Dolphin Coalition, formed in Sydney by Australian photographer Jonny Lewis〔(www.jonnylewis.org )〕 and French businessman Jean-Paul Fortom-Gouin,〔(thelastwhale.blogspot.com March 2007 )〕 invited Canadian Bob Hunter,〔(www.seashepherd.org May 19, 2005 )〕 Greenpeace co-founder and its first president, and his wife Bobbi, Greenpeace's first treasurer, to Australia in 1977. They needed their expertise honed in the North Pacific against the Soviet whaling fleet. Greenpeace's first direct action in Australia opened on 28 August 1977, at Albany, Western Australia against Australia's last whaling station. Over the next three weeks, Lewis, Fortom-Gouin, Bob Hunter and Australians Tom Barber and Allan Simmons used Zodiacs to place themselves between the harpoons of the three whale chaser ships and sperm whales up to 30 miles offshore. There were two near misses with harpoons but no injuries. The Whale and Dolphin Coalition then morphed into Greenpeace Australia with animal rights campaigner Richard Jones registering the entity and Sydney journalist Jodi Adams becoming Greenpeace Australia's first coordinator. The organisation's first assets included a Zodiac from the Albany campaign. Australians harpooned their last whale—a female sperm whale—on 20 November 1978. The Cheyne Beach Whaling Station ended operations the next day. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greenpeace Australia Pacific」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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