Environmental organization

The World Wide Fund for Nature, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are among the largest international non-governmental environmental organisations.

An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.

In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment, the natural environment or the built environment. The organization may be a charity, a trust, a non-governmental organization or a government organization. Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local.

History

Founded on 28 May 1892 in San Francisco, California, Sierra Club was one of the first large-scale environmental preservation organizations in the world.^[1]

Politics

Most organizations are in some way or try to be involved in policy making to exert more influence. Green politics is the political ideology which places a high importance on environmental goals and Green parties have formed to implement environmental policy at a government level.

Issues in focus

Audubon Center at Bent of the River. The Audubon Society is an environmental organization dedicated to the protection of birds.

Some of the environmental issues that are of interest to environmental organizations are pollution, waste, resource depletion, human overpopulation and climate change.

Further information: List of environmental issues

List of environmental organizations

Greenpeace logo. The organization is one of the most visible interest groups worldwide

Main article: List of environmental organizations

Further information: List of anti-nuclear groups, Sustainability organizations, and Category:Environmental organizations

Notable global environmental organizations are the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Wide Fund for Nature,^[2] the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), World Nature Organization (WNO), Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

Counter-movements

In order to counterbalance the sometimes progress- captalism- and economy-skeptic attitude and influence of environmental organizations, many interest groups and associations have been formed, most often industry-supported, seldom of purely ideological nature.

Further information: Category:Organizations of environmentalism skeptics and critics, environmental skepticism, and anti-environmentalism

References

Johnson, Erik W.; Scott Frickel (2011). "Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998". Social Problems. 58 (Aug. 2011) (3): 305–29. doi:10.1525/sp.2011.58.3.305. This study examines the role of "ecological threat" in shaping the U.S. environmental movement. … Declines in wildlife populations are associated with the foundings of wildlife and wilderness protection organizations while increases in air pollution are associated with the foundings of organizations focused on ecosystem well-being and public health.

Conservation organisations and groups

Organisations	The Conservation Fund Conservation International The Conservation Volunteers Deep Sea Conservation Coalition Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Getty Conservation Institute Greenpeace International Union for Conservation of Nature Marine Conservation Society Natural Resources Conservation Service Polar Conservation Organisation Sierra Club Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Wildlife Conservation Society Wildlife Conservation Network

Activism and movements	Community-based conservation Conservation communities Conservation movement Marine conservation activism Sea Shepherd

Other	List of environmental organizations

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