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Tim Copley, active supporters unit manager, reviews last year's actions:

Huge thanks to all of you for making 2005 another very successful campaigning year! Your time, energy and commitment enabled us to achieve some significant results.

Our climate campaign moved up a gear as we signed up thousands of new activists, stopped trading for a day at the International Petroleum Exchange, and shut down production of the gas guzzling Range Rover Sport. Working closely with climate campaigners we've continued to support onshore and offshore windfarm projects through the Yes2Wind Network.

In support of the ancient forests campaign, our investigations and direct actions exposed garden centres and DIY stores using timber illegally and unsustainably logged from ancient forests. We also took the message to DEFRA in the form of a symbolic blockade.

We continued to campaign against Sainsbury's to get them to ensure the milk they sell comes from cows fed a GM free diet, and 13 volunteers who stopped a boatload of GM grain entering Bristol docks were acquitted of any wrongdoing at their trial in Cardiff.

In support of the oceans campaign we continued to highlight the scale of destruction caused by commercial fishing fleets on dolphin and porpoise populations in the North East Atlantic, and launched our campaign for supermarkets to adopt responsible purchasing polcies, turning our attentions on Asda as the worst culprit.

Many thanks for all your incredible hard work and support - bring on 2006!.

Febuary: First phase of the GM Scary Dairy campaign starts in Cardiff to highlight the use of GM animal feed in dairy farming

Febuary: The signing up of climate activists begins - over 7,000 recruited by the end of the year.

February: 30 climate activists stop oil trading at the International Petroleum Exchange. 40 more volunteers disrupt Esso CEO Lee Raymond's appearance at the annual oil industry dinner in London.

February: A poll of 5,000 Londoners shows clear support for the idea that gas guzzling 4x4s should pay a higher congestion charge.

March: Volunteers deliver dead dolphins to decision makers on pair trawling for sea bass.

March: Active supporters at 60 Wyevale Garden Centres across the UK expose the sale of garden furniture made from timber from the ancient rainforests of South East Asia.

May: 4x4 climate subvertising and guerilla marketing work begins.

16 May: 35 volunteers shut down the production of Range Rovers at the company's Solihull plant.

June: active supporters prevent sales of gas guzzlers at Land Rover dealerships in LOndon, Southampton, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.

June-August: A summer of music and fun - hundreds of volunteers engage thousands of people at Glastonbury, Womad, Fruitstock, Wireless, Wytchwood, Hay-on-Wye Book Festival, Waveney and Northampton Green Fairs, and U2 gigs.

10 July: 30 volunteers go to Paris to mark the 20th anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

August: The second phase of the Scary Dairy GM work in Cardiff starts with polls and milk exchanges.

September: 80 volunteers mark the launch of the 'Stop Climate Chaos' coalition.

October: active supporters expose Asda as the supermarket which sells the most destructively fished seafood species.

October: spoof wheel clamps and tax disc appear around the country.

October: volunteers blockade DEFRA's offices with illegal timber from Papua New Guinea.

Vital statistics for 2005

3 Regional skillshares held in Dunblane, York and Machynlleth.

Over £35,000 raised by active supporters, with an amazing £14,000 coming from Waveney Green Fair.

14 non violence and 6 street campaigning skills training sessions and 2 legal support network briefing days

9 new groups and networks emerged - in Cardiff, Swansea, West Midlands, Bedfordshire, Kent, Scarborough, Chesterfield, Lincoln and Lancaster.

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