biography
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| (1932–2001)
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| biography:
| Canadian conservationist. A former businessman, he volunteered to sail his yacht into the French nuclear-testing area in the Pacific on behalf of Greenpeace, a Vancouver-based conservation group, to prevent a nuclear weapon test taking place. He subsequently took an active part in other Greenpeace campaigns, and formed Greenpeace International (1979) as an alliance of national Greenpeace groups. |
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