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With the support of more than 1 million activists like you, we have already protected nearly 4 million square miles of ocean and innumerable sea turtles, sharks, dolphins, and other sea creatures - but there is still more to be done. Your gift will help ensure the health of our oceans and the future of our planet.

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We can win the biggest battles in the smallest moments. Whether it's changing the way you eat to help shape our food system or calling on world leaders to come together and act to protect nature; we all have a role to play in the fight for our world.

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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) projects

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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) projects

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There are lots of ways to get involved and give nature a home with the RSPB. We have big dreams and you're part of them.

From starting or joining a local group, fundraising and volunteering, to taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch or Give Nature a Home, you can be a part of saving nature. It's future is in all of our hands, and together we can make a big difference.

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There are lots of ways to get involved and give a nature a home with the RSPB. From starting or joining a local group, fundraising and volunteering, to taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch or Give Nature a Home. Learn how to get involved here.

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Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organisation working for the protection and conservation of the environment. It was set up in Vancouver, Canada in 1971 and now has regional and national offices in 46 countries.

Greenpeace received international attention during the 1980s when the French intelligence agency bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in the Auckland Harbour, killing one individual. In the following years, Greenpeace evolved into one of the largest environmental organizations in the world. Greenpeace is known for its direct actions and has been described as the most visible environmental organization in the world. The organization has raised environmental issues to public knowledge, and influenced both the private and the public sector.

Priorities and campaigns

On its official website, Greenpeace defines its mission as the following:

Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by:

Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet: climate change.

Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a global network of marine reserves.

Protecting the world's remaining ancient forests which are depended on by many animals, plants and people.

Working for disarmament and peace by reducing dependence on finite resources and calling for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Creating a toxin free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's products and manufacturing.

Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.

Greenpeace International

All Greenpeace actions are based on a common set of values and should therefore be: nonviolent, non-partisan, independent and international.

Since Greenpeace was founded, seagoing ships have played a vital role in its campaigns. The group has three ocean-going ships, the Esperanza, Arctic Sunrise and Rainbow Warrior III.

Greenpeace receives its funding exclusively from individual supporters and foundations. Greenpeace screens all major donations in order to ensure it does not receive unwanted donations. The organization does not accept money from governments, political parties or corporations in order to avoid their influence. Donations from foundations which are funded by political parties or receive most of their funding from governments are also rejected.

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Location of Amchitka island in Alaska.

The nuclear device that sparked the creation of Greenpeace being lowered into its firing hole for Cannikin.

MV Esperanza, a former fire-fighter owned by the Russian Navy, was relaunched by Greenpeace in 2002

The governance and management structure of Greenpeace.

Greenpeace Climate March 2015 in Madrid

Greenpeace's ship MV Arctic Sunrise in the harbour of Helsinki.

Greenpeace's second Rainbow Warrior ship arrives in Bali for the 2007 UN climate conference.

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Greenpeace is an international non-governmental organisation working for the protection and conservation of the environment. It was set up in Vancouver, Canada in 1971 and now has regional and national offices in 46 countries. Greenpeace received international attention during the 1980s when the French intelligence agency bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in the Auckland Harbour, killing one individual.

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Welcome to RSPCA Kids

Here you can read about your favourite animals and what we do to help them. Get busy with some animal fun or help out with some fundraising. Maybe you want to find out what it's like to work with animals.

If you love animals why not subscribe to our animal action magazine?

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Here you can read about your favourite animals and what we do to help them. Get busy with some animal fun or help out with some fundraising. Maybe you want to find out what it's like to work with animals. If you love animals why not subscribe to our animal action magazine?

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ( IUCN) is an international organization set up to protect plants, animals and habitats. It was first called the "World Conservation Union." It was started in 1948, with its main office in Gland, Switzerland. The IUCN brings together 83 states, 108 government agencies, 766 Non-governmental organizations and 81 international organizations and about 10,000 experts and scientists from countries around the world.

IUCN's purpose is to influence, encourage and assist countries around the world to conserve the quality and diversity of nature. It also has to make sure that any use of natural resources is fair and sustainable without harming the earth.

The first Director General of UNESCO, (Sir Julian Huxley) wanted to give UNESCO a more scientific base. He set up a meeting to start a new organisation to protect nature.

At the first meeting at Fontainebleau, France, on 5 October, 1948, 18 governments, seven international organisations, and 107 national nature conservation organisations agreed to form the International Union for the Protection of Nature.

From the start the most important task has been to explore and develop arrangements that can allow development as well as helping people and nations to better preserve their flora and fauna. The ICUN has always argued that needs of local communities, people and nations have to be the main part of a conservation plan. Areas needing protection and threatened species would be best protected:

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if local people considered it in their own interest to do so. Working with rather than against local people became a major working principle for IUCN.

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The IUCN now has offices in many of the nations around the world. It is able to provide the services of a large group of mainly voluntary specialists, providing local level advice and conservation services.

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Julian Huxley, the first Director General of UNESCO, took the initiative to set up IUCN.

In Spanish: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza para niños

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International Union for the Conservation of Nature Facts for Kids

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Learn International Union for the Conservation of Nature facts for kids

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We're celebrating 25 years of conserving wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas! We're proud of all we have accomplished for birds. But the need is great. Many birds are experiencing major population declines and need our help more than ever. Please join us and start making a difference for birds today.

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American Bird Conservancy: 25 Years of Bird Conservation Results

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We're celebrating 25 years of conserving wild birds and their habitats throughout the Americas! We're proud of all we have accomplished for birds. But the need is great. Many birds are experiencing major population declines and need our help more than ever. Please join us and start making a difference for birds today.

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The giant panda has been an endangered species for many years. A major problem for the pandas is that there are not enough bamboo forests left for them. The reserves in which they live are separated from each other like separate islands. The forest between the reserves is increasingly threatened by the construction of roads, mines and dams, for example. This while a panda must be able to move from one bamboo forest to another to look for new bamboo or other pandas.