A Greenpeace action is not just a demonstration - it is an affirmation of our values. We use boats, helicopters, inflatables and all the traditional forms of political protest. We block toxic outflow pipes, we scale chimneys, we put ourselves between the whalers and their quarry.

The 'clearcutting' atrocity on Vancouver Island, uprooting the remaining temperate rain forest, provokes the biggest act of civil disobedience in Canada's history...

...and the campaign is taken to London, where protesters ring the British Columbian embassy, and neon signs in Piccadilly Circus publicise the issue.

Six hundred people cover London's Whitehall in a 'die-in' to protest against nuclear power... and the highly publicised action is repeated in other European countries.

In Rio de Janeiro, Greenpeace activists chain themselves to hazardous waste barrels outside the French consulate...

...in the Sea of Japan, Greenpeace discovers a Russian vessel carrying nuclear waste...

and 80 miles off the Danish coast, inflatables from the MV Sirius block the whaler's line of fire.