McTaggart, David Fraser

McTaggart, David Fraser
▪ 2002

      Canadian environmental activist (b. June 24, 1932, Vancouver, B.C.—d. March 23, 2001, Perugia, Italy), as chairman of Greenpeace International from 1979 to 1991, was responsible for leading the environmental organization to worldwide prominence. McTaggart's involvement with Greenpeace began in 1972, when he sailed a yacht to Mururoa—an isolated atoll in the South Pacific—as part of a protest against the French government's nuclear testing in the area. He later organized other demonstrations against nuclear testing as well as campaigns to save whales, to protect Antarctica from mineral exploitation, and to end the practice of dumping nuclear waste at sea.

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