David McTaggart

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.

David Fraser McTaggart (June 24, 1932 - March 23, 2001) was an Canadian-born environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International.

In 1972, responding to an ad in the newspapers, he used his personal boat to protest the testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific by the French Government. After getting his boat damaged and being physically hurt by the French Military, his protest succeeded in 1974 when the French announced the end of their atmospheric nuclear testing program.

McTaggart continued to participate in Greenpeace forums after retirement until his death in an automobile accident.