List of environmental organizations - Definition and Overview

This is a list of environmental organizations, organizations that preserve or monitor the environment in different ways. Environmental organizations can be global, regional, national or local; they can be government-run or private.

Intergovernmental Organizations

International organizations and bodies established under international organizations to protect the environment:

• Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NAFTA)
• European Environment Agency (EEA)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)

Government Organizations

The governments of all developed countries today have government departments or agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:

Canada

• Environment Canada

New Zealand

• Department of Conservation
• Ministry for the Environment
• Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment

United Kingdom

• English Heritage
• English Nature
• The Environment Agency (England & Wales)
• The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Scotland)

United States

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Fish and Wildlife Service

• All US states have fish & game departments that regulate local hunting and other taking of wild animals.

Private Organizations (Environmental NGOs)

These organizations are involved in lobbying, advocacy, or conservation efforts:

International

• BirdLife International
• The Center for International Environmental Law
• Earth Charter Organization
• Earth Liberation Front
• Environmental Investigation Agency
• Environmental Law Association Worldwide
• Foundation for Environmental Education
• Friends of the Earth
• Green Cross International
• Greenpeace
• The Nature Conservancy
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Worldwatch Institute
• World Wildlife Fund
• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
• The Xerces Society

Australia

• Australian Conservation Foundation

See also Category:Australian environmental organisations.

Canada

• ACTivist Magazine (http://www.activistmagazine.com)
• The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Canadian Environmental Law Association
• Canadian Environment Network
• The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
• The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Environmental Bureau of Investigation
• Environmental Defence
• Pollution Probe
• Sierra Club of Canada
• Sierra Legal Defence Fund

Germany

• ROBIN WOOD
• BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)

  BUNDjugend (Bund's Youth organization)

New Zealand

• Beech Forest Action Council
• Buller Conservation Group
• Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand (ECO)
• Native Forest Action
• Native Forest Action Council changed name to Maruia Society
• Native Forest Restoration Trust
• Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand

See also: Category:New Zealand environmental organisations and List of New Zealand Environmental organizations (http://www.greenpages.org.nz)

United Kingdom

• Campaign for the Protection of Rural England
• Friends of the Earth England Wales and Northern Ireland
• Friends of the Earth Scotland
• Greenpeace UK
• Town and Country Planning Association
• Transport 2000
• Council for the Protection of Rural England
• RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)

United States

• American Bird Conservancy
• Earth First!
• Izaak Walton League
• National Audubon Society
• Nature's Classroom
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Native Forest Council
• National Wildlife Federation
• Negative Population Growth
• Population Connection
• Rainforest Action Network
• Sea Shepherd
• Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
• Sierra Club
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• The Wilderness Society
• The Wildlands Project

Other (to be categorized)

• African Conservation Foundation
• The Civic Trust
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Environmental Defense Fund
• European Biomass Association
• Forest Stewardship Council
• GREENGUARD Environmental Institute
• Groundwork

• The Town and Country Planning Association
• North American Native Fishes Association

See also

• List of organizations
• environment
• environmentalism
• List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
• green party,
• activism industry
• environmental agreements

External links

(These should be sorted into categories above; those that aren't primarily organizations, but rather websites, should be moved to environment)

• Scorecard.org (http://www.scorecard.org) - lots of info about pollution in your area, just enter your zip code. Colored maps also show how bad certain types of pollution are in your area.
• Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov)
• OEHHA (http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/61501LSTB.htm)
• Environmental Defense Fund (http://www.edf.org)
• ACTivist Magazine (http://www.activistmagazine.com)
• CUSP (http://www.uscongress-enviroscore.org/) - environmental voting records for the United States Congress, including overpopulation-related votes
• League of Conservation Voters (http://www.lcv.org/) - environmental voting records for the United States Congress
• Rachel's Environment and Health News (http://www.rachel.org) - Weekly news about how the polluted environment affects people, and what corporations and governments are doing (or not doing) about it. Also in Spanish.
• Essential.org (http://www.essential.org) - Some organizations related to consumers and consumer protection, including pollution.
• CleanUp GE.org (http://www.cleanupge.org) - Info about GE's shady dumping practices on the Hudson River.
• Extoxnet newsletters (http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/newsletters/ghindex.html) - environmental pollution news. Last update 1998.
• Environmental News Network (http://www.enn.com/) - more news
• Environmental Working Group (http://www.ewg.org/)
• Sewage Sludge (http://www.ejnet.org/sludge/) - in the US it is perfectly legal to fertilize food crops with solids from the sewer, which include lots of heavy metals and toxins.