London - The executive director of the British branch of the environmental campaign group Greenpeace announced yesterday he was stepping down to devote more time to his family's organic farm.
Lord Melchett led the British branch of the organisation for 12 years but shot to prominence earlier this year when he was arrested and later acquitted for wrecking a field of genetically-modified crops. He was born into a family of wealthy industrialists - his great-grandfather was founder of ICI - but he renounced his birthright and after university became a vegetarian socialist.