This is a list of the more notable environmental organization

Environmental organization

An environmental organization is an organization that seeks to protect, analyze or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation or lobby for these goals....

s by organization type (intergovernmental, governmental or non-governmental

Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any government. The term originated from the United Nations , and is normally used to refer to organizations that do not form part of the government and are...

) and further subdivided by country.

Worldwide

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
  
   (IPCC)
• United Nations Environment Programme
  United Nations Environment Programme
  The United Nations Environment Programme coordinates United Nations environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices. It was founded as a result of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in June 1972 and has its...
  
   (UNEP)
• Earth System Governance Project
  Earth System Governance Project
  The Earth System Governance Project is a long-term, interdisciplinary social science research programme developed under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions program on Global Environmental Change, and started January 2009. It will conclude in 2018.The Earth System Governance Project...
  
  

Regional

• European Environment Agency
  European Environment Agency
  European Environment Agency is an agency of the European Union. Its task is to provide sound, independent information on the environment. It is a major information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public...
  
   (EEA)
• Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia
  PEMSEA
  Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia is a regional partnership programme implemented by the United Nations Development Programme and executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services...
  
   (PEMSEA)

Government organizations

The governments of many countries have ministries or agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:

China

• Ministry of Environmental Protection
  Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China
  The Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China , formerly State Environmental Protection Administration , is a cabinet-level ministry in the executive branch of the Chinese Government . It replaced the SEPA during the March 2008 National People's Congress sessions in...
  
  

India

• Gujarat Pollution Control Board
  Gujarat Pollution Control Board
  The Government of Gujarat constituted the Gujarat Pollution Control Board on October 15, 1974 with a view to protect the environment, prevent and control the pollution of water in the State of Gujarat, that occupies a prominent niche in progressive and industrial development of the country...
  
  
• SNSMT Odisha, India
• Ministry of Environment and Forests
  Ministry of Environment and Forests
  The Ministry of Environment and Forests is an Indian government ministry. The Minister of Environment and Forests holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers...
  
  
• The Earth Organization-Sec'bad http://www.teosecbad.org.in

Indonesia

• Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation
  Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (Indonesia)
  The Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation is a Directorate General under the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia...
  
  

Netherlands

• Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
  Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (Netherlands)
  The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment was a Dutch ministry. It was responsible for policies on public housing, spatial planning, the environment and the housing of national government agencies...
  
  

New Zealand

• Department of Conservation
  New Zealand Department of Conservation
  The Department of Conservation , commonly known by its acronym, "DOC", is the state sector organisation which deals with the conservation of New Zealand’s natural and historic heritage...
  
  
• Ministry for the Environment
• Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
  Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
  The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is an independent Officer of the New Zealand Parliament appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the House of Representatives for a five-year term under the Environment Act 1986...
  
  

Norway

• Norwegian Ministry of the Environment
  Norwegian Ministry of the Environment
  The Royal Norwegian Ministry of the Environment is a Norwegian ministry established in 1972. The ministry is responsible for environmental issues in Norway. It is led by the Minister of the Environment, Erik Solheim...
  
  
• Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management
  Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management
  The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management is Norway's national governmental body for preserving Norway's natural environment, including establishing and regulating national parks and other protected areas...
  
  
• Norwegian Pollution Control Authority
  Norwegian Pollution Control Authority
  The Norwegian Climate and Pollution Agency is a Norwegian government agency responsible for insuring that pollution, waste and other harmful substances don't result in health damage, inflict the well-being or hinder the production and reproduction of nature...
  
  

Republic of China (Taiwan)

• Environmental Protection Administration
  Environmental Protection Administration (Republic of China)
  Environmental Protection Administration is a Cabinet level executive agency responsible for protecting and conserving the environment in the Taiwan Area...
  
  

Scotland

• Historic Scotland
  Historic Scotland
  Historic Scotland is an executive agency of the Scottish Government, responsible for historic monuments in Scotland.-Role:As its website states:...
  
  
• Scottish Natural Heritage
  Scottish Natural Heritage
  Scottish Natural Heritage is a Scottish public body. It is responsible for Scotland's natural heritage, especially its natural, genetic and scenic diversity. It advises the Scottish Government and acts as a government agent in the delivery of conservation designations, i.e...
  
  
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  Scottish Environment Protection Agency
  The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is Scotland’s environmental regulator. Its main role is to protect and improve Scotland's environment...
  
  

United States

• United States Environmental Protection Agency
  United States Environmental Protection Agency
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress...
  
  
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats...
  
  
• United States National Park Service

Private Organizations (Environmental NGOs)

These organizations are involved in environmental management

Environmental management

Environmental resource management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities” . It is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of the interaction and...

, lobbying

Lobbying

Lobbying is the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies. Lobbying is done by various people or groups, from private-sector individuals or corporations, fellow legislators or government officials, or...

, advocacy

Advocacy

Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...

, or conservation

Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future....

 efforts:

International

• 350.org
  350.org
  350.org is an international environmental organization, headed by author Bill McKibben, with the goal of building a global grassroots movement to raise awareness of anthropogenic climate change, to confront climate change denial, and to cut emissions of one of the greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide,...
  
  
• Anti-nuclear movement
• Antinea Foundation
  Antinea Foundation
  The Antinea Foundation is a Switzerland-based non-profit organisation with the mission to play an innovative role in the conservation of the oceans...
  
  
• A Rocha
  A Rocha
  A Rocha is an international environmental organization with a Christian ethos. A Rocha, which means "the rock" in Portuguese , was founded in Portugal in 1983 by Anglican minister Peter Harris and his wife Miranda...
  
  
• Biofuelwatch
  Biofuelwatch
  Biofuelwatch is an environmental organisation based in the United Kingdom and US, which works to raise awareness of the negative impacts of industrial biofuels and bioenergy, on biodiversity, human rights, food sovereignty and climate change, human rights abuses, the impoverishment and...
  
  
• Biosphere Expeditions
  Biosphere Expeditions
  Biosphere Expeditions is a wildlife research and conservation non-profit organization whose main focus is to conserve the biosphere with volunteer-led scientific conservation expeditions to several countries around the world...
  
  
• Bioversity International
  Bioversity International
  Bioversity International is one of 15 agricultural research centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research . It is dedicated to the conservation and use of agricultural biodiversity to improve the livelihoods of poor people. The organization is highly...
  
  
• BirdLife International
  BirdLife International
  BirdLife International is a global Partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources...
  
  
• Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies
  Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies
  The Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies was created as a co-operative international organization for information exchange regarding environmental engineering between the various European societies in this field....
  
  
• Conservation International
  Conservation International
  Conservation International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, which seeks to ensure the health of humanity by protecting Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity. CI’s work focuses on six key initiatives that affect human well-being: climate, food security, freshwater...
  
  
• Earth Charter Initiative
  Earth Charter Initiative
  The Earth Charter Initiative is the collective name for the global network of people, organizations, and institutions who participate in promoting the Earth Charter, and in implementing its principles in practice...
  
  
• Forests and the European Union Resource Network
  FERN
  FERN is a Dutch foundation created in 1995. It is an international non-governmental organization to keep track of the EU’s involvement in forests and to co-ordinate NGO activities at the European level...
  
   (FERN)
• Fauna and Flora International
• Forest Stewardship Council
  Forest Stewardship Council
  The Forest Stewardship Council is an international not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization established in 1993 to promote responsible management of the world’s forests. Its main tools for achieving this are standard setting, independent certification and labeling of forest products...
  
  
• Friends of Nature
  Friends of Nature
  Friends of Nature is an international movement with a background in the Social Democratic movement, which aims to make nature accessible to the wider community by providing appropriate recreational and travel facilities.-Background:It is a non-profit organisation which, in addition to encouraging...
  
  
• Friends of the Earth
  Friends of the Earth
  Friends of the Earth International is an international network of environmental organizations in 76 countries.FOEI is assisted by a small secretariat which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns...
  
  
• Gaia Mater (the mother Earth)
• Global Footprint Network
  Global Footprint Network
  Global Footprint Network, founded in 2003, is an independent think tank based in the United States, Belgium and Switzerland. Global Footprint Network works on tools for advancing sustainability.-Work:...
  
  
• Global Witness
  Global Witness
  Global Witness is an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide. The organisation has offices in London and Washington, D.C.. Global Witness states that it does not have...
  
  
• Great Transition Initiative
  Great Transition
  Great Transition is a vision created by the Global Scenario Group of how humanity could create a civilization that reflects egalitarian social and ecological values, affirms diversity, and defeats poverty, war, and environmental destruction....
  
  
• Green Actors of West Africa
  Green Actors of West Africa
  Green Actors of West Africa is a network of environmental organizations from West Africa created in 2005. The goal of GAWA Network is to develop ways of enhancing cooperation and coordination between and among the various donors and environmental actors in this sub-African region.The geographic...
  
   (GAWA)
• Green Cross International
  Green Cross International
  Green Cross International is an environmental organisation founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building upon the work started by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
  
  
• Greenpeace
  Greenpeace
  Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
  
  
• Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• International Analog Forestry Network
  International Analog Forestry Network
  The International Analog Forestry Network is an NGO established in 1996 to exchange information about analog forestry among people seeking to apply its techniques....
  
  
• International Network for Sustainable Energy
  International Network for Sustainable Energy
  International Network for Sustainable Energy, is an international, non-profit organisation network of environmental organizations promoting sustainable energy to protect the environment and to decrease poverty.- Activities :...
  
   (INFORSE)
• The Mountain Institute
  The Mountain Institute
  The Mountain Institute is an international non-profit organization dedicated to conservation, community development, and cultural preservation in the Andes, Appalachians, Himalayas, and other mountain ranges of the world...
  
  
• Mountain Wilderness
  Mountain Wilderness
  Mountain Wilderness is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to the preservation of mountain areas, in their natural and cultural aspects. The organization was founded in Europe and has a stronger presence in alpine and pyrenean regions...
  
  
• NatureServe
  NatureServe
  NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems in...
  
  
• Plant A Tree Today Foundation
  Plant A Tree Today Foundation
  The Plant A Tree Today Foundation is a non-governmental environmental organization with primary operations in Thailand and Indonesia. Established in 2005, PATT attempts to raise environmental awareness and foster better practices in less developed nations around the world, planting trees as a...
  
   (PATT)
• Project AWARE
  Project AWARE
  Project AWARE is a non-profit, worldwide, organization dedicated to "Conserving underwater environments through education, advocacy and action."...
  
  
• Rainforest Alliance
  Rainforest Alliance
  The Rainforest Alliance is a non-governmental organization with the published aims of working to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior. It is based in New York City, and has offices throughout the...
  
  
• Sandwatch
  Sandwatch
  Sandwatch is a grassroots network of schools and community groups working together to monitor and conserve local beach and nearshore environments and to build resilience to climate change...
  
  
• Seeds of Survival
  USC Canada
  USC Canada is a non-profit, international development organization working to improve livelihoods by promoting agricultural biodiversity. The organization was founded in 1945 by Lotta Hitschmanova as the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada....
  
   of USC Canada
• Society for the Environment
  Society for the Environment
  The Society for the Environment is an umbrella body that can license its member institutions to confer chartered status on sustainability and environmental professionals worldwide...
  
   (SocEnv)
• Taiga Rescue Network
  Taiga Rescue Network
  Taiga Rescue Network is an international network of more than 200 non-governmental organizations, indigenous peoples and individuals working to defend the world's boreal forests, also known as Taiga. TRN was established in 1992 to give a voice to support, link and publicize local struggles...
  
   (TRN)
• The Climate Project
  The Climate Project
  The Climate Project was founded by Nobel laureate Al Gore in June 2006 and is a non-profit organizationdedicated to calling attention to what it believes are global problems associated with climate change...
  
  
• The Resource Foundation
  The Resource Foundation
  right|thumb|Official logo of The Resource FoundationThe Resource Foundation is a US-based 501 non-profit non-governmental organization that cultivates productive relationships between sustainable private development organizations in Latin America and selective donors worldwide by leveraging...
  
  
• Wetlands International
  Wetlands International
  Wetlands International is a global organisation that works to sustain and restore wetlands and their resources for people and biodiversity. It is an independent, not-for-profit, global organisation, supported by government and NGO membership from around the world...
  
  
• Wildlife Conservation Society
  Wildlife Conservation Society
  The Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx Zoo was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society and currently manages some of wild places around the world, with over 500 field conservation projects in 60 countries, and 200 scientists on staff...
  
  
• Wolf Preservation Foundation
  Wolf Preservation Foundation
  The Wolf Preservation Foundation is an international non-profit organisation, independent of political parties or common interests...
  
   (WPF)
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a CEO-led, global association of some 200 international companies dealing exclusively with business and sustainable development....
  
  
• Worldchanging
  Worldchanging
  Worldchanging is an American non-profit online magazine and blog about sustainability and social innovation. At 19/09/2011, it was taken over by Architecture for Humanity....
  
  
• World Conservation Union
  World Conservation Union
  The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is an international organization dedicated to finding "pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges." The organization publishes the IUCN Red List, compiling information from a network of...
  
   (WCN)
• World Land Trust
  World Land Trust
  The World Land Trust is a UK-based nonprofit environmental organization established in 1989. Its primary aims are to ensure conservation of plants, animals and natural communities in areas at risk...
  
  (WLT)
• World Resources Institute
  World Resources Institute
  The World Resources Institute is an environmental think tank founded in 1982 based in Washington, D.C. in the United States.WRI is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization with a staff of more than 100 scientists, economists, policy experts, business analysts, statistical analysts,...
  
   (WRI)
• World Union for Protection of Life
  World Union for Protection of Life
  The World Union for Protection of Life is an international non-profit organization and non-governmental organization which was founded 1958 in Salzburg by the writer Günther Schwab...
  
   (WUPL)
• Worldwatch Institute
  Worldwatch Institute
  The Worldwatch Institute is a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts.-Mission:...
  
  
• World Wide Fund for Nature
  World Wide Fund for Nature
  The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States...
  
   (WWF)
• Xerces Society
  Xerces Society
  The Xerces Society is an environmental organization that focuses on invertebrates which are essential to biological diversity. The name is in honor of the extinct California butterfly, Xerces Blue....
  
  
• Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
  Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
  The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative or Y2Y is a joint Canada-US charitable organization that seeks to preserve and maintain the wildlife, native plants...
  
  

Europe

• Climate Action Network
  Climate Action Network
  Climate Action Network is an umbrella group of environmental non-governmental organisations active on the issue of climate change...
  
   - Europe (CAN-Europe)
• European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
  European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
  The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists is an international scientific association which aims are:* to contribute to the development and application of environmental and resource economics as a science in Europe,...
  
  
• European Biomass Association
  European Biomass Association
  The European Biomass Association is a group of national biomass associations with membership open to representatives of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe...
  
  
• European Environmental Bureau
  European Environmental Bureau
  The European Environmental Bureau is a federation of over 140 environmental citizens’ organisations based in all 27 European Union Member States, potential Member States and a few neighbouring countries. These organisations range from local and national, to European and international...
  
   (EEB)
• INFORSE-Europe
  INFORSE-Europe
  INFORSE- Europe is an international, non-profit organisation network of European environmental organizations promoting sustainable energy development within Europe; and worldwide in cooperation with other INFORSE regions....
  
  
• Coastwatch Europe
  Coastwatch Europe
  Coastwatch Europe is a voluntary organisation which monitors the coastal and wetland environments of several European countries, campaigns for improvements to environmental policies and for the implementation of existing environmental legislation, and organises public information events and seminars...
  
  

North America

• Fund for Wild Nature
  Fund for Wild Nature
  The Fund For Wild Nature is an environmental organization that gives financial support to grassroot projects and organizations that work for the protection of biodiversity and wilderness. The Fund works exclusively for projects in countries of North America. It has no endowment and is supported...
  
  
• Green Zionist Alliance
  Green Zionist Alliance
  The Green Zionist Alliance is a New York-based secular and pluralistic Jewish environmental organization that is a U.S.-registered 501 tax-deductible nonprofit charity...
  
  
• International Joint Commission
  International Joint Commission
  The International Joint Commission is an independent binational organization established by the United States and Canada under the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909.The Commission has responsibilities related to the following treaties and agreements:...
  
  
• North American Native Fishes Association
  North American Native Fishes Association
  The North American Native Fishes Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt U.S. corporation that serves to bring together professional and amateur aquarists, anglers, fisheries biologists, ichthyologists, fish and wildlife officials, educators and naturalists who share an interest in the...
  
  
• Rivers Without Borders
  Rivers Without Borders
  Rivers Without Borders, a nonprofit organization fiscally sponsored by the Tides Center and Tides Canada Initiatives, promotes a watershed-based conservation vision for the Transboundary Watershed Region of Southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia. Rivers Without Borders' mission is to...
  
  
• Wild Farm Alliance
  Wild farm alliance
  The Wild Farm Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing biodiversity by expanding the idea and practice of wild farming....
  
  

Australia

• Australian Conservation Foundation
  Australian Conservation Foundation
  The Australian Conservation Foundation is an Australian non-profit, community-based environmental organisation focused on advocacy, policy research and community outreach.-History:...
  
  
• Australian Koala Foundation
  Australian Koala Foundation
  The Australian Koala Foundation is an international not-for-profit scientific organisation that aims to diminish the threats to the survival of koalas and in doing so raise the awareness of the global community to help save endangered fauna and flora...
  
  
• Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices
  Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices
  The Australian Network of Environmental Defenders Offices consists of nine independently constituted and managed community environmental law centres located in each State and Territory of Australia. ANEDO is notable as Australia's main public interest advocacy law organisation in environmental...
  
  
• Australian Student Environment Network
  Australian Student Environment Network
  The Australian Student Environment Network is the national network of many campus environment collectives in Australia. People from ASEN facilitate communication between campus environment collectives and co-ordinate national projects and campaigns. ASEN was formed at the 1997 Students and...
  
  
• Australian Wildlife Conservancy
  Australian Wildlife Conservancy
  The Australian Wildlife Conservancy is an Australian independent, non-profit organisation, working to conserve threatened wildlife and ecosystems in Australia, principally through the acquisition of extensive areas of land on which to establish conservation reserves . These sanctuaries are...
  
  
• Banksia Environmental Foundation
  Banksia Environmental Foundation
  The Banksia Environmental Foundation is an Australian organisation created in 1989 to support and confer recognition on individuals and organisations that make a positive contribution to the environment. The Foundation launched the annual Banksia Environmental Awards in the same year...
  
  
• Birds Australia
  Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
  The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also known as Birds Australia, was founded in 1901 to promote the study and conservation of the native bird species of Australia and adjacent regions. This makes it Australia's oldest national birding association. It is also Australia's largest...
  
  
• Blue Wedges
  Blue Wedges
  Blue Wedges is a conservation organisation in conflict with Australia's Victorian government policy to deepen shipping channels in Port Phillip and the large scale development of Ramsar listed Westernport...
  
  
• Clean Ocean Foundation
  Clean Ocean Foundation
  The Clean Ocean Foundation is an environmental organisation that is dedicated to the closure of ocean sewerage outfalls in Victoria...
  
  
• Environment Victoria
  Environment Victoria
  Environment Victoria is Victoria’s leading independent environment group. Established in 1969 as the Conservation Council of Victoria, Environment Victoria was set up by Victoria's community conservation groups to provide a single unified voice for Victoria's environment. Today, Environment...
  
  
• Greening Australia
  Greening Australia
  Greening Australia is an Australian environmental organisation, founded in 1982, the International Year of the Tree, to protect, restore and conserve Australia's native vegetation...
  
  
• Landcare Australia
• Public Transport Users Association
  Public Transport Users Association
  The Public Transport Users Association is a community-based public transport lobby group in Victoria, Australia, based in Melbourne.- History and Aims :...
  
  
• The Wilderness Society (Australia)
  The Wilderness Society (Australia)
  The Wilderness Society is an Australian, community-based, not-for-profit non-governmental environmental advocacy organisation. Its purpose is to protect, promote and restore wilderness and natural processes across Australia for the survival and ongoing evolution of life on Earth.It is a...
  
  
• Wildlife Watch Australia
  Wildlife Watch Australia
  Wildlife Watch Australia is a non-profit organisation located in Australia established in 2008 by Glenn Allen, the organisation leader and public relations officer....
  
  

See also :Category:Environmental organisations based in Australia.

Canada

• Ancient Forest Alliance
  Ancient Forest Alliance
  The Ancient Forest Alliance is a grassroots environmental organization in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in January, 2010, and is dedicated to protecting British Columbia's old growth forests in areas where they are scarce, and ensuring sustainable forestry jobs in that...
  
  
• Bird Protection Quebec
  Bird Protection Quebec
  Bird Protection Quebec was founded in Montreal in 1917 and is the oldest organization of birders in Quebec.BPQ exists to conserve wild birds and the environment...
  
  
• Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
  Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
  The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment is a Canadian-based non-profit organization dedicated to environmental issues, especially as they relate to human health. The group was founded in 1994, and is composed of over 4,700 medical doctors and concerned citizens from across Canada...
  
  
• Canadian Environmental Law Association
  Canadian Environmental Law Association
  The Canadian Environmental Law Association is a non-profit, public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms...
  
  
• Canadian Environmental Network
  Canadian Environmental Network
  The Canadian Environmental Network is an umbrella organization for environmental non-governmental organizations located across Canada. This non-profit organization was mainly funded by Environment Canada and helped to facilitate networking and communication between environmental organizations,...
  
  
• Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
  Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
  The Canadian Youth Climate Coalition is a non for profit youth organisation in Canada. The coalition consists of various youth organisations, which includes the Canadian Federation of Students, the Canadian Labour Congress The charity aims to politically prioritize climate change as an important...
  
  
• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
• David Suzuki Foundation
  David Suzuki Foundation
  The David Suzuki Foundation is an environmental organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada It is a non-profit organization that is incorporated in both Canada and the United States, and is funded by over 40,000 donors...
  
  
• Ecojustice Canada
  Ecojustice canada
  Ecojustice Canada , is a Canadian non-profit environmental law firm that uses litigation to defend and protect the environment.-Mission:...
  
  
• Earth Liberation Army
  Earth Liberation Army
  The Earth Liberation Army , similar to the Earth Liberation Front , is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment", commonly known as ecotage or...
  
   (ELA)
• Earth Rangers
  Earth Rangers
  Earth Rangers is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing environmental education to children and inspiring them to take action. Their conservation message is shared in schools, community events, at the Royal Ontario Museum and online, offering a positive and engaging experience for...
  
  
• Energy Probe
  Energy Probe
  Energy Probe is a non-governmental environmental policy organization based in Toronto and best known for its role in opposing nuclear power. It was founded in 1970 as a sister project of Pollution Probe and incorporated in 1980 as Energy Probe Research Foundation , which describes itself as "one of...
  
  
• Green Action Centre
  Green Action Centre
  Green Action Centre is an environmental organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It works to promote greener living through environmental education for households, workplaces, schools, and communities. It also develops and advocates environmental policies for Manitoba communities...
  
  
• Manitoba Eco-Network
  Manitoba Eco-Network
  The Manitoba Eco-Network is an environmental, non-governmental organization, and registered charity located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Canada. It is a regional affiliate of the Canadian Environmental Network, based in Ottawa. The Manitoba Eco-Network is a network for approximately 50...
  
  
• Nature Canada
  Nature Canada
  Nature Canada is a member-based non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to protect nature and the processes that sustain it. Based in Ottawa, Nature Canada's supporters include more than 40,000 individuals and over 350 affiliated organizations, including local and provincial...
  
  
• Pembina Institute
  Pembina Institute
  The Pembina Institute is a Canadian not-for-profit think tank focused on developing innovative sustainable energy solutions. Founded in 1985, the Institute has offices in Calgary, Drayton Valley, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Yellowknife....
  
  
• Regenesis (non-profit organization)
• Sierra Youth Coalition
• The Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture
  The Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture
  The Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture or S.P.W.C., was a Toronto arts organization in existence from 1986 to 1991 that explored environmental and ecological issues from an artistic perspective, and in a “quirky and innovative” way. The S.P.W.C...
  
  
• Toronto Environmental Alliance
  Toronto Environmental Alliance
  The Toronto Environmental Alliance is a Canadian non-profit environmental organization. Formed in 1988, TEA provides an activist voice on environmental issues affecting Toronto.-Mandate:TEA's mandate is to promote a greener Toronto...
  
   (TEA)
• Western Canada Wilderness Committee
  Western Canada Wilderness Committee
  The Western Canada Wilderness Committee is a non-profit environmental education organization that aims to protect Canada's wild spaces and species. Paul George, the founding director, formed the Wilderness Committee in the province of British Columbia in 1980...
  
  

See also :Category:Environmental organizations based in Canada.

Czech Republic

• Environmental Law Service
  Environmental Law Service
  Environmental Law Service is a Czech non-governmental organization of lawyers who use law to further the public interest. Based in Tábor, its Czech name is Ekologický právní servis . It has a second office at Brno....
  
   (ELS)
• Hnutí DUHA
  Hnutí DUHA
  Hnutí DUHA is an environmental movement in the Czech Republic, the most prominent in the country...
  
   - Friends of the Earth Czech Republic

Germany

• Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland
  Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland
  Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland is a German non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving nature and protecting the environment. The german title would be translated to something like Union for the environment and nature conservation Germany...
  
   (BUND) = Friends of the Earth
  Friends of the Earth
  Friends of the Earth International is an international network of environmental organizations in 76 countries.FOEI is assisted by a small secretariat which provides support for the network and its agreed major campaigns...
  
  , Germany
• BUNDjugend
  BUNDjugend
  BUNDjugend is the youth organisation of the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland . As an environmental youth organization BUNDjugend is fighting for the protection of nature and environment. BUNDjugend was founded in 1984 and is divided into different state organizations...
  
   (BUND's Youth organization)
• EarthLink e.V.
  Earthlink e.V.
  EarthLink is an international organisation fighting for human rights and the environment, established in Munich, Germany in 1998. With partners around the globe, EarthLink is actively involved in the pursuit of a common cause — harmony between people and nature...
  
  
• Fuck for Forest
  Fuck for Forest
  Fuck for forest, or FFF, is a non-profit environmental organisation founded in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, which raises money for rescuing the world's rainforests by producing pornographic material or having sex in public....
  
  
• Naturschutzbund Deutschland
  Naturschutzbund Deutschland
  The Naturschutzbund Deutschland or NABU is a German non-governmental organisation dedicated to conservation at home and abroad, including the protection of rivers, forests and individual species of animals.NABU is one of the largest, most well-known, nature conservation groups in Germany and has...
  
   (NABU) - German Nature Conservation Society
• Robin Wood
  Robin Wood (environmental organisation)
  Robin Wood is a German environmental advocacy group. The group was founded in 1982 by former members of Greenpeace who desired a decentralized grassroots organization with greater autonomy to address specific local German issues. Robin Wood is based in Bremen and, in 2008, was composed of fifteen...
  
  
• Zeitz Foundation
  Zeitz Foundation
  The Zeitz Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in Germany and headquartered in Kenya with representation in the United States and the United Kingdom...
  
  

Hong Kong

• Clear the Air (Hong Kong)
  Clear the Air (Hong Kong)
  Clear The Air is a voluntary organisation aiming at reducing air pollution in Hong Kong. It was founded on 10 December 1997 as a Society under the Societies Ordinance . It is self-sustained and is supported by individual membership fees and member donations.爭氣 means "fighting for air" and "living...
  
  
• Friends of the Earth (HK)
  Friends of the Earth (HK)
  Friends of the Earth Charity Limited is a Hong Kong based environmental organisation founded in 1983. Commonly known as Friends of the Earth or FoE , it has a membership of more than 4,500 individuals and over 140 schools and non-government organisations.As FoE receives no regular funding...
  
  
• Green Power
  Green Power
  Green Power is a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization concerned with the city's environmental issues. The NGO was founded in 1988 by a group of volunteers who made environmental education the foremost priority of the organization....
  
  
• Lights Out Hong Kong
  Lights Out Hong Kong
  Lights Out Hong Kong is a campaign in Hong Kong to protest against the city's air pollution. Organisers of the campaign urged people in Hong Kong to switch off their lights for 3 minutes at 8pm on 8/8/2006 as a statement of protest...
  
  
• Society for Protection of the Harbour
  Society for Protection of the Harbour
  Society for Protection of the Harbour is a Hong-Kong-based organization founded in November, 1995. It is a charitable, non-political and non-profit making green group. The objectives of the organization are to protect the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong from destruction caused by Government’s...
  
  
• The Conservancy Association

India

• Awaaz Foundation
  Awaaz Foundation
  Awaaz Foundation is a charitable trust and non-governmental organization in Mumbai, India, which builds awareness, carries out advocacy, and is involved in educational projects to protect the environment and prevent environmental pollution. It has impacted many important decisions by the government...
  
  
• CERE India
  CERE India
  The Centre for Environmental Research and Education is a Mumbai-based not-for-profit organization that works to promote environmental sustainability through action-oriented education, awareness and advocacy. CERE was established in 2002 by Dr. Rashneh N. Pardiwala, an ecologist from the...
  
  
• Conserve
  Conserve (NGO)
  Conserve is a non-governmental organization launched in India in 1998 by husband and wife Shalabh and Anita Ahuja.-Inception:In 1998, when the Delhi government launched the Bhagidari campaign, asking its citizens to participate in civic initiatives, the conservationist, Anita Ahuja and her...
  
  
• Exnora International
  Exnora International
  Exnora International is a non-governmental environmental service organization started in 1989 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, by M. B. Nirmal, a social activist...
  
  
• Foundation for Ecological Security
  Foundation for Ecological Security
  The Foundation for Ecological Security is a non-governmental organization based in Anand, Gujarat, India which seeks to conserve ecologically-sensitive land and water resources.-External links:**...
  
  
• Goa Foundation
  Goa Foundation
  The Goa Foundation is the best known of Goa's environmental action groups. Founded in 1986 by a group of Goan environmentalists each fighting individual environmental battles, the organisation today holds influence with the judiciary, government and the general public, having persisted with its...
  
  
• Centre for Science and Environment
  Centre for Science and Environment
  Centre for Science and Environment is a not-for-profit public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, India. Established in 1980, CSE has been working on various environment-development issues in India, pushing for policy changes wherever required and better implementation...
  
  

Israel

• Israel Union for Environmental Defense
  Israel Union for Environmental Defense
  -Tel Aviv islands:In November 2002 the Israeli Government appointed a six-member committee to explore the financial feasibility of creating two islands off the coast of Tel Aviv. One of the islands would be for an airport, similar to the Kobe airport in Japan, and the other island would have...
  
   (IUED)
• Green Movement
• Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network
  Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network
  The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a mandate to protect the environment of Palestine by acting as a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental organizations located in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
  
  
• Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
  Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel
  The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel , or SPNI, is an Israeli non-profit environmental organization working to preserve plants, animals, and natural environments that represent bio-diversity, by protecting the lands and waters needed for their survival, and is Israel's oldest and...
  
   (SPNI)
• Zalul Environmental Association
  Zalul Environmental Association
  Zalul Environmental Association is an Israel-based environmental group founded in 1999 with the goal protecting the seas and rivers of Israel through conservation, activism, research, awareness-raising and education...
  
  

Nepal

• International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
• National Trust for Nature Conservation
  National Trust for Nature Conservation
  The National Trust for Nature Conservation previously known as King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation is a Nepalese non-governmental organization working in the field of nature conservation.It was established in 1982 as an autonomous non profit organization by legislative law of Nepal...
  
  

New Zealand

• Buller Conservation Group
  Buller Conservation Group
  Buller Conservation Group is an environmental organisation based in Westport on the West Coast of New Zealand.The organisation was actively involved in supporting Native Forest Action's campaigns against Timberlands logging of native forest, and Solid Energy's pollution of the Waimangaroa...
  
  
• Conservation Volunteers New Zealand
  Conservation Volunteers New Zealand
  Conservation Volunteers New Zealand was founded in 2006 by Conservation Volunteers Australia. CVNZ's first office opened in Auckland.Conservation Volunteers New Zealand is a New Zealand not-for-profit conservation organisation that attracts and coordinates volunteers for environmental restoration...
  
  
• Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand
  Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand
  The Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand was formed in 1971 under the name of CoEnCo and changed its name to ECO in 1976....
  
   (ECO)
• Native Forest Restoration Trust
  Native Forest Restoration Trust
  Founded in 1980, the New Zealand Native Forests Restoration Trust is an organisation involved in forest restoration.Since then, the Trust has acquired land at the rate of 250 ha per year to protect important species, restore their habitats and to improve the quality of waterways...
  
  
• New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network
  New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network
  New Zealand Ecological Restoration Network is an environmental organisation dedicated to protecting and restoring the biodiversity of New Zealand....
  
  
• New Zealand Institute of Environmental Health
  New Zealand Institute of Environmental Health
  The New Zealand Institute of Environmental Health is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation that promotes best practice in environmental health and represents those engaged in environmental and health protection fields in New Zealand...
  
   (NZIEH)
• Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
  Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
  The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc. is an environmental organisation specialising in conservation of indigenous plant and animal life in and around New Zealand....
  
  
• Save Happy Valley Campaign
  Save Happy Valley Campaign
  The Save Happy Valley Coalition is an environmental activist movement formed with the express purpose of preventing the Cypress mine, an open cast coal mine on the West Coast of New Zealand, from proceeding....
  
  
• TerraNature
  TerraNature
  TerraNature is a New Zealand environmental organisation, and is an incorporated charitable trust located in Auckland.The Trust is dedicated to land and marine conservation, native habitat restoration, protection of endangered species, and reduction in the loss of New Zealand's unique...
  
  
• Waipoua Forest Trust

Norway

• Bellona Foundation
  Bellona Foundation
  The Bellona Foundation is a multi-disciplinary international environmental NGO based in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1986 by Frederic Hauge and Rune Haaland as a direct action protest group, it has since blossomed into a recognized technology and solution-oriented environmental champion with offices on...
  
  
• Eco-Agents
  Eco-Agents
  Eco-Agents is a member-based environmental organization for children. A subsidiary of the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, it has 3000 members. The three focus issues are conservation of nature, global warming and consumption....
  
  
• Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature
  Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature
  The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature , also known as Friends of the Earth Norway and commonly abbreviated NNV is the largest Norwegian environmental organization with 28,000 members. The organization is based on a volunteer work among the members, constituting work both at local and...
  
  
• Green Warriors of Norway
  Green Warriors of Norway
  Green Warriors of Norway is a Norwegian democratic member environmental organisation based in Bergen, with offices in Oslo and Tromsø...
  
   (Norges Miljøvernforbund)
• Nature and Youth
• Zero Emission Resource Organisation
  Zero Emission Resource Organisation
  Zero Emission Resource Organisation or ZERO is a Norwegian environmental organisation that was founded in 2002 to work with reduction of greenhouse gases, primarily in Norway. The philosophy of the organisation is that if new facilities are made emission-free, then when existing plants and methods...
  
  

Philippines

• Greenpeace Southeast Asia
  Greenpeace Southeast Asia
  Greenpeace Southeast Asia is the regional office of the global environmental organization Greenpeace.Greenpeace has run successful campaigns in the Philippines, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and Thailand, often working with other local environmental groups...
  
   - Philippines
• Haribon Foundation
  Haribon Foundation
  The Haribon Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources, simply known as Haribon Foundation, is a membership organization dedicated to the conservation of Philippine biodiversity. It aims to build a constituency for environmental issues that will prioritize conservation actions on habitats...
  
  
• Sibuyanons Against Mining
  Sibuyanons Against Mining
  Sibuyanons Against Mining is an environmental advocacy group organized primarily by Sibuyanons.It has been fighting for mining moratorium in Sibuyan Island...
  
  

South Africa

• Cape Town Ecology Group
  Cape Town Ecology Group
  The Cape Town Ecology Group is a South African based radical environmental group, founded in 1987, as a "child of Koeberg Alert", and active until the early 1990s. It espoused a more political-orientated green ideology as opposed to the apartheid-based conservation groups of the time...
  
  
• Dolphin Action & Protection Group
  Dolphin Action and Protection Group
  Dolphin Action and Protection Group is a non-governmental organization in South Africa which campaigns for the protection and conservation of dolphins and whales . The group was founded in 1977. DAPG has since then broadened its role and activities and has run many national educational and...
  
  
• Earthlife Africa
  Earthlife Africa
  Earthlife Africa is a South African environmental and anti-nuclear organization founded in August 1988, in Johannesburg. Initially conceived of as a South African version of Greenpeace, the group began by playing a radical, anti-apartheid, activist role. ELA is arguably now more of a reformist...
  
  
• Endangered Wildlife Trust
  Endangered Wildlife Trust
  The Endangered Wildlife Trust is a South African environmental organisation for the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems in southern Africa....
  
  
• EThekwini ECOPEACE
  EThekwini ECOPEACE
  ECOPEACE Party, previously eThekwini ECOPEACE, and before that eThekwini Ecoparty, is a nationally registered environmental political party in South Africa that was founded in 1995. eThekwini is the isiZulu name for Durban. The isiZulu ECOPEACE motto Buhlakuleni uButhi, Yitshaleni iMithi means...
  
  
• Groundwork
  Groundwork South Africa
  South African Friends of the Earth affiliate started by former members of Environmental Justice Network in 1999groundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organization working primarily in South Africa but increasingly in Southern Africa.groundWork seeks to improve...
  
  
• Koeberg Alert
  Koeberg Alert
  Koeberg Alert formed in 1983 and started out as a local campaign against South Africa's nuclear programme, in particular the construction of Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. Koeberg Alert is possibly the country's first activist green movement, apart from Nan Rice's Dolphin Action and Protection...
  
  
• The Earth Organization
  The Earth Organization
  The Earth Organization is an international non-governmental organization which describes itself as "independent, grass roots, international non-profit, conservation and environment organization, with new solutions, committed to the creative, responsible rehabilitation of Planet Earth and the plant...
  
  
• Wildlife & Environment Society
  WESSA
  - Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa :The Society is a non-government environmental organization of South Africa, was established in 1926, but its origins go back to the 1890s.- Relevance to establishment of other...
  
  

Ukraine

• Ukraine Nature Conservation Society (UkrTOP)
  Ukraine Nature Conservation Society
  Ukraine Nature Conservation Society is a non-governmental environmental organization, foundation of which was a predecessor of the Khrushchev thaw during his time in Ukraine. In 1967, under the pressure of UkrTOP, the Ukrainian Government founded the State Committee for Nature Protection as a...
  
  

United Kingdom

• Association for Environment Conscious Building
• Bicycology
  Bicycology
  Bicycology is a UK-based collective that was formed after the 2005 London to Scotland G8 Bike Ride . It is a non-hierarchical non-profit organisation which aims to promote cycling as part of a wider focus on social and environmental sustainability...
  
  
• Campaign for Better Transport
• Campaign for National Parks (CNP)
• Campaign to Protect Rural England
• Centre for Alternative Technology
  Centre for Alternative Technology
  The Centre for Alternative Technology is an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development. CAT, despite its name, no longer concentrates its efforts exclusively on alternative technology, but provides information on all aspects of sustainable living...
  
   (CAT)
• Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
  Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
  The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management is an independent professional body and a registered charity, advancing the science and practice of water and environmental management for a clean, green and sustainable world....
  
   (CIWEM)
• The Corner House
  The Corner House (organisation)
  The Corner House is a not for profit company limited by guarantee founded in 1997 in the United Kingdom. According to its website, it aims "to support democratic & community movements for environmental & social justice"...
  
  
• Creative Environmental Networks
  Creative Environmental Networks
  Creative Environmental Networks is a UK-based company delivering a range of services to engage householders, businesses and communities in environmental and social improvement....
  
   (CEN)
• Earth Liberation Front
  Earth Liberation Front
  The Earth Liberation Front , also known as "Elves" or "The Elves", is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment".The ELF was founded...
  
   (ELF)
• Earth Liberation Prisoner Support Network (ELPSN)
• Environmental Investigation Agency
  Environmental Investigation Agency
  The Environmental Investigation Agency is an NGO founded in 1984 by Dave Currey, Jennifer Lonsdale and Allan Thornton, three environmental activists in the United Kingdom. Its stated goal is to investigate and expose crimes against wildlife and the environment...
  
  
• Environmental Justice Foundation
  Environmental Justice Foundation
  The Environmental Justice Foundation is a [non-governmental organisation]] founded in 2001 by Steve Trent and Juliette Williams that promotes the non-violent resolution of human rights abuses and related environmental issues in the Global South...
  
  
• Environmental Law Foundation
  Environmental Law Foundation
  The Environmental Law Foundation is a UK registered charity dedicated to environmental law and disseminating information on the subject....
  
   (ELF)
• Environmental Protection UK
  Environmental Protection UK
  Environmental Protection UK is a UK environmental Non-Governmental Organization working in the fields of air quality, noise and land quality...
  
  
• Forest Peoples Programme
  Forest Peoples Programme
  The Forest Peoples Programme is a non-governmental organisation that campaigns for the rights of indigenous forest-dwellers. Founded in 1990 by the Uruguay-based World Rainforest Movement, FPP seeks to bridge the gap between policy makers and forest peoples. The Forest Peoples Project is its...
  
  
• Green Alliance
  Green Alliance
  Green Alliance is a charity and an independent think tank focused ambitious leadership for the environment in the United Kingdom . We have a track record of over 30 years, working with the most influential leaders from the NGO, business, and political communities...
  
  
• Groundwork UK
  Groundwork UK
  Groundwork UK is an environmental organisation in the United Kingdom.-History:In 1980, the Countryside Commission launched an initiative known as UFEX80. This was re-branded as "Operation Groundwork" in 1981, and the first Groundwork Trust came into being at St. Helens and Knowsley that year...
  
  
• The Institution of Environmental Sciences
• Marine Conservation Society
  Marine Conservation Society
  The Marine Conservation Society a UK charity for the protection of the seas around the United Kingdom, and for the protection of their shores and wildlife.According to their website MCS's Vision is:Their website also states:...
  
  
• John Muir Trust
  John Muir Trust
  The John Muir Trust is a Scottish charity established as a membership organisation in 1983 to conserve wild land and wild places for the benefit of all...
  
  
• People & Planet
  People & Planet
  People & Planet is a network of student campaign groups in the UK. It claims to be "the largest student campaigning organization in the country campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment."-Organization:...
  
  
• Plane Stupid
  Plane Stupid
  Plane Stupid is a UK-focused group of environmental protesters who state their aim as wanting to see an end to airport expansion for what it sees as "unnecessary and unsustainable" flights. The organisation has no formal hierarchy, leader, or media figurehead. It is a loose association of...
  
  
• RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  Bird Notes and News was first published in April 1903.The title changed to 'Bird Notes' in 1947. In the 1950s, there were four copies per year . Each volume covered two years, spread over three calendar years...
  
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• Scottish Wildlife Trust
  Scottish Wildlife Trust
  The Scottish Wildlife Trust is a registered charity dedicated to conserving the wildlife and natural environment of Scotland.-Description:The Scottish Wildlife Trust has over 32,800 members...
  
  
• Stop Climate Chaos
  Stop Climate Chaos
  Stop Climate Chaos is a climate change coalition of primarily environmental and international development NGOs that was formed in September 2005. The coalition ran the big I Count campaign in 2006–07 and organised The Wave - a campaign focused on the climatic impacts of energy production which...
  
  
• The Civic Trust
• World Land Trust
  World Land Trust
  The World Land Trust is a UK-based nonprofit environmental organization established in 1989. Its primary aims are to ensure conservation of plants, animals and natural communities in areas at risk...
  
  
• The Wildlife Trusts
• Town and Country Planning Association
  Town and Country Planning Association
  The Town and Country Planning Association is England's oldest environmental charity. It was founded as the Garden Cities Association in 1899 by Ebenezer Howard, initially to promote the development of Garden Cities...
  
  
• UK Environmental Law Association
  UK Environmental Law Association
  The UK Environmental Law Association is a charity registered in England, founded in 1987 and dedicated to improving environmental law in the United Kingdom; its implementation; understanding and awareness of the subject, and networking among lawyers and non-lawyers with an interest in the...
  
   (UKELA)
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
  Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
  the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society is a wildlife charity that is dedicated solely to the worldwide conservation and welfare of all whales, dolphins and porpoises...
  
  
• Woodland Trust
  Woodland Trust
  The Woodland Trust is a conservation charity in the United Kingdom concerned with the protection and sympathetic management of native woodland heritage.-History:...
  
  

United States

• 41pounds.org
  41pounds.org
  41pounds.org is a nonprofit environmental organization based in Ferndale, Michigan established in 2006 to help reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial mail delivered to homes throughout the United States and, with it, reductions in the use of natural resources.The name of the organization is...
  
  
• Abalone Alliance
  Abalone alliance
  The Abalone Alliance was a nonviolent civil disobedience group formed to shut down the Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Diablo Canyon Power Plant near San Luis Obispo on the central California coast in the United States...
  
   (historic)
• Adirondack Mountain Club
  Adirondack Mountain Club
  The Adirondack Mountain Club is a nonprofit organization founded in 1922. It has approximately 35,000 members. The ADK is dedicated to the protection and responsible recreational use of the New York State Forest Preserve, parks, wild lands, and waters; it conducts extensive conservation, and...
  
  
• African American Environmentalist Association
  African American Environmentalist Association
  The Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy is a private, public interest group focusing on environmental issues. Its stated aims include protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing participation in...
  
  
• African Wild Dog Conservancy
  African Wild Dog Conservancy
  The African Wild Dog Conservancy is a non-profit, 501, non-governmental organization, working with local communities, and national and international stakeholders, to conserve the African wild dog through scientific research and education....
  
  
• Albatross Foundation USA
  Albatross Foundation USA
  The Albatross Foundation USA is a non-profit, community-based organization, which was initiated and is led by residents of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in San Cristóbal Island, the administrative capital of the Galápagos Islands Province of the Republic of Ecuador...
  
  
• Allegheny Land Trust
  Allegheny Land Trust
  Allegheny Land Trust is a regional land conservation group headquartered in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in the United States.- Mission :"Allegheny Land Trust's mission is to serve as the lead land trust conserving and stewarding lands that support the scenic, recreational and environmental well-being...
  
  
• Alliance for Climate Protection
  Alliance for Climate Protection
  The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Nobel laureate and former United States Vice President Al Gore. The Alliance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to educating the global community about the urgency of implementing comprehensive solutions to the climate crisis...
  
  
• Alliance to Save Energy
  Alliance to Save Energy
  The Alliance to Save Energy is a coalition consisting largely of industrial, technological, and energy corporations. The Alliance states that its mission is to "support energy efficiency as a cost-effective energy resource under existing market conditions and advocate energy-efficiency policies...
  
  
• American Bird Conservancy
  American Bird Conservancy
  American Bird Conservancy is a non-profit membership organization with the mission of conserving native birds and their habitats throughout the Americas...
  
  
• American Farmland Trust
  American Farmland Trust
  The American Farmland Trust is an organization founded to preserve farmland and ranchland in the United States and to promote sustainable agricultural practices....
  
  
• American Wind and Wildlife Institute
• Animal Protection and Rescue League
  Animal Protection and Rescue League
  The Animal Protection and Rescue League is an American 501 non-profit organization that works to document and expose cruelty inflicted on animals behind closed doors, particularly in factory farms....
  
   (APRL)
• Appalachian Voices
  Appalachian Voices
  -Mission:Appalachian Voices is a grassroots environmental organization whose mission is toAppalachian Voices was founded in 1997and is based out of Boone, North Carolina , but has offices in Washington, D.C. and Charlottesville, Virginia They are members of the Alliance for Appalachia, Waterkeeper...
  
  
• Arlington Coalition on Transportation
  Arlington Coalition on Transportation
  The Arlington Coalition on Transportation is a citizens group formed to oppose the construction of Interstate 66 through Arlington, Virginia. The focal activity of ACT was the conduct of a lawsuit filed against the Virginia Department of Transportation in 1971 in district court...
  
   (ACT)
• Association of Environmental Professionals
  Association of Environmental Professionals
  The Association of Environmental Professionals is a non-profit organization of interdisciplinary professionals including environmental science, resource management, environmental planning and other professions contributing to this field...
  
  
• Audubon movement
  Audubon movement
  The Audubon movement is a collective name for the more than 500 Audubon clubs, societies, and organizations in North America, all of which take their name from the famous bird artist John James Audubon.- Origins :...
  
  
• Bonneville Environmental Foundation
  Bonneville Environmental Foundation
  The Bonneville Environmental Foundation is a non-profit organization that markets green power products to public utilities, businesses, government agencies and individuals. It was founded in 1998 to support watershed restoration programs and develop new sources of renewable energy...
  
   (BEF)
• Builders for the Bay
  Builders for the Bay
  Builders for the Bay is a non-profit organization intended to improve ecological aspects of residential and commercial development in the Chesapeake Bay area of the US.-The organization:...
  
  
• Center for a New American Dream
  Center for a New American Dream
  The Center for a New American Dream is a nonprofit organization with a stated mission to “help Americans to reduce and shift their consumption to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice." The organization works with individuals, institutions, communities, and...
  
  
• Center for International Environmental Law
  Center for International Environmental Law
  The Center for International Environmental Law is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 in the USA to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world....
  
  
• Center for Biological Diversity
  Center for Biological Diversity
  The Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona, is a nonprofit membership organization with approximately 220,000 members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action and scientific petitions...
  
  
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. It was founded in 1967 and has headquarters offices in Annapolis, Maryland...
  
  
• Citizens Campaign for the Environment
  Citizens Campaign for the Environment
  Citizens Campaign for the Environment was founded in 1985 by a small group of Long Island citizens. CCE is as a not-for-profit. Offices are in Farmingdale, NY, White Plains, NY, Albany, NY, Syracuse, NY, Buffalo, NY, and New Haven, CT...
  
  
• Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
  Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
  The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow is a conservative Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose stated mission is to promote free market solutions to environmental problems...
  
  
• Conservation International
  Conservation International
  Conservation International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, which seeks to ensure the health of humanity by protecting Earth's ecosystems and biodiversity. CI’s work focuses on six key initiatives that affect human well-being: climate, food security, freshwater...
  
  
• Conservation Law Foundation
  Conservation Law Foundation
  Conservation Law Foundation is an environmental advocacy organization based in New England. Since 1966, CLF's mission has been to advocate on behalf of the region's environment and its communities. CLF's advocacy work takes place in four program areas: Clean Energy & Climate Change, Clean Water &...
  
  
• Defenders of Wildlife
  Defenders of Wildlife
  Defenders of Wildlife is a United States-based, 501 non-profit organization founded in 1947, "dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities." The organization is active in political interventions and lobbying aimed at protection of wildlife, and...
  
  
• Earthwatch
• Earth First!
• Earth Island Institute
  Earth Island Institute
  The Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982 by environmentalist David Brower. It organizes and encourages activism around environmental issues and provides public education. Funding comes from individual members and supporting organizations...
  
  
• Earth Policy Institute
  Earth Policy Institute
  Earth Policy Institute is an environmental organization based in Washington DC in the United States. It was founded by Lester R. Brown in 2001...
  
  
• Earth Liberation Army
  Earth Liberation Army
  The Earth Liberation Army , similar to the Earth Liberation Front , is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment", commonly known as ecotage or...
  
   (ELA)
• Earth Liberation Front
  Earth Liberation Front
  The Earth Liberation Front , also known as "Elves" or "The Elves", is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment".The ELF was founded...
  
   (ELF)
• EarthLab
  Earthlab
  EarthLab, is the first and the leading Climate crisis community, uses an ECP calculator to help create carbon footprint profiles for its members. EarthLab works to inform its members and the general public about the effects of global warming and climate change...
  
  
• Earth's Birthday Project
  Earth's Birthday Project
  **Earth’s Birthday Project is a U.S.-based 501**Earth’s Birthday Project is a U.S.-based 501(c)**Earth’s Birthday Project is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3, educational non-profit organization.- History :Since Earth’s Birthday Project’s founding in 1989, it is estimated that more than 15 million school...
  
  
• Ecotrust
  Ecotrust
  Ecotrust is a conservation organization based in Portland, Oregon that works to foster prosperous communities along the West Coast of North America.-History and Programs:...
  
  
• EcoWatch
• Energy Action Coalition
  Energy Action Coalition
  The Energy Action Coalition is a North American non-profit organization made up of 50 partner organizations in the U.S. and Canada that runs campaigns to build the youth and student clean energy movement and advocate for tangible changes on local, state, national and international levels in North...
  
  
• Environmental and Energy Study Institute
  Environmental and Energy Study Institute
  The Environmental and Energy Study Institute was established by members of the United States Congress who were concerned with environmental and energy problems...
  
   (EESI)
• Environment America
  Environment America
  Environment America is a federation of state-based, citizen-funded environmental advocacy organizations. Its mission is to advocate for and protect clean air, water, and open spaces in the United States...
  
  
• Environment California
  Environment California
  Environment California is a 501 non-profit political organization that lobbies for environmental legislation in the U.S. state of California and on a national level.- History :...
  
  
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Design Research Association
  Environmental Design Research Association
  The Environmental Design Research Association is an international, interdisciplinary organization founded in 1968 by design professionals, social scientists, students, educators, and facility managers...
  
   (EDRA)
• Environmental Law Institute
  Environmental Law Institute
  The Environmental Law Institute is a non-profit, non-advocacy environmental group, which specializes in producing publications and research that target legal practitioners, business leaders, land managers, land use planners, environmentalists, journalists, and lawmakers...
  
  
• Environmental Life Force
  Environmental Life Force
  Environmental Life Force , also known as the Original ELF, was the first radical environmental group in 1977 to use explosive and incendiary devices in defense of the environment.-History:...
  
   (ELF)
• Environmental Working Group
  Environmental Working Group
  The Environmental Working Group is an American environmental organization that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of toxic chemicals, agricultural subsidies, public lands, and corporate accountability...
  
  
• Earth Share
  Earth Share
  EarthShare is a national federation that supports leading American environmental and conservation charities.Its stated mission is to engage individuals and organizations in creating a healthy and sustainable environment, by promoting environmental awareness and raising funds primarily through...
  
  
• Forest Guardians
  Forest Guardians
  WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit environmental organization, founded in 1989, with offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Denver, Colorado, Phoenix, Arizona, and Tucson, Arizona. The organization's approach to conservation features a combination of scientific analysis, strategic litigation to enforce...
  
  
• Global Water Policy Project
  Global Water Policy Project
  The Global Water Policy Project was founded by Sandra Postel in 1994. The Project is an environmental research organisation based in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Its aim is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of Earth’s fresh water...
  
  
• Green Zionist Alliance
  Green Zionist Alliance
  The Green Zionist Alliance is a New York-based secular and pluralistic Jewish environmental organization that is a U.S.-registered 501 tax-deductible nonprofit charity...
  
  
• GREENGUARD Environmental Institute
  GREENGUARD Environmental Institute
  -GREENGUARD Environmental Institute:The is an industry-independent organization that aims to protect human health and improve quality of life by enhancing indoor air quality and reducing people’s exposure to chemicals and other pollutants...
  
  
• Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
  Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
  The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is an organization based in Beacon, New York that seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands and waterways through advocacy and public education...
  
  
• Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
  Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
  The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research focuses on the environmental safety of nuclear weapons production, ozone layer depletion, and other issues relating to energy. IEER publishes a variety of books on energy-related issues, conducts workshops for activists on nuclear issues, and...
  
   (IEER)
• Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology
• International Council on Nanotechnology
  International Council on Nanotechnology
  The International Council on Nanotechnology is an international, multi-stakeholder group committed to developing and communicating information regarding potential environmental and health risks of nanotechnology, thereby fostering risk reduction while maximizing societal benefit...
  
   (ICON)
• Honor the Earth
  Honor The Earth
  Honor The Earth is a non-profit organization founded to raise awareness and financial support for Indigenous environmental justice. The organization was founded by Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers after meeting Winona LaDuke in 1991 in collaboration with Indigenous Environmental Network,...
  
  
• Izaak Walton League
  Izaak Walton League
  The Izaak Walton League is an American environmental organization founded in 1922 that promotes natural resource protection and outdoor recreation. The organization was founded in Chicago, Illinois by a group of sportsmen who wished to protect fishing opportunities for future generations...
  
  
• Keep America Beautiful
  Keep America Beautiful
  Keep America Beautiful is a U.S. based nonprofit organization founded in 1953. It is the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with approximately 589 affiliate organizations and more than 1,000 community organizations that participate in their programs.Keep America...
  
  
• League of Conservation Voters
  League of Conservation Voters
  The League of Conservation Voters is a political advocacy organization founded in 1969 by American environmentalist David Brower in the early years of the environmental movement. LCV's mission is to "advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt...
  
  
• Montana Wilderness Association
  Montana Wilderness Association
  The Montana Wilderness Association was founded in 1958 by Montana volunteers and is governed by a state council of citizen volunteers from across the state, elected by the membership. As a community-based organization, it works at the local level through seven chapters and field offices in ...
  
  
• National Audubon Society
  National Audubon Society
  The National Audubon Society is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance its conservation mission...
  
  
• National Council for Science and the Environment
  National Council for Science and the Environment
  The National Council for Science and the Environment is a U.S. based non-profit organization which has a mission to improve the scientific basis for environmental decision-making...
  
   (NCSE)
• National Geographic Society
  National Geographic Society
  The National Geographic Society , headquartered in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical...
  
  
• National Registry of Environmental Professionals
  National Registry of Environmental Professionals
  The National Registry of Environmental Professionals is a the largest U.S. non-governmental environmental accrediting organization, and is recognized by the US Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency...
  
   (NREP)
• National Wildlife Federation
  National Wildlife Federation
  The National Wildlife Federation is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, with over four million members and supporters, and 48 state and territorial affiliated organizations...
  
  
• National Wildlife Refuge Association
  National Wildlife Refuge Association
  The National Wildlife Refuge Association is an independent non-profit 501 membership organization that works to conserve American wildlife by strengthening and expanding the National Wildlife Refuge System managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service...
  
  
• Native Forest Council
  Native Forest Council
  "Native Forest Council is an American environmental organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of all publicly owned natural resources from destructive practices, sales, and all resource extraction...
  
  
• Natural Resources Defense Council
  Natural Resources Defense Council
  The Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...
  
  
• Nature's Classroom
  Nature's Classroom
  Nature's Classroom is a non-profit outdoor environmental education program started in 1973 in the Northeast of the United States. It hosts residential programs for teachers and students at fifteen sites in New England and New York; programs range from one to five days...
  
  
• NatureServe
  NatureServe
  NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems in...
  
  
• Negative Population Growth
  Negative Population Growth
  Negative Population Growth is a membership organization in the United States, founded in 1972.NPG works on overpopulation issues and advocates a gradual reduction in U.S. and world population. NPG believes the optimal population for the United States is 150 to 200 million and that the optimal...
  
  
• Neighborhood Parks Council
• Nicodemus Wilderness Project
  Nicodemus Wilderness Project
  Founded in 2000, the Nicodemus Wilderness Project is a nonprofit organization in the United States which provides global experiential education and service-learning opportunities for youth to help save the natural environment while developing their own leadership skills.The mission of the...
  
  
• Pacific Environment
  Pacific Environment
  Pacific Environment is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA founded in 1987. Its objective is to protect the living environment of the Pacific Rim.-Mission statement:...
  
  
• Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
• Population Connection
  Population Connection
  Population Connection is an organization in the United States, formerly known as Zero Population Growth. They adopted their current name in 2002.Zero Population Growth was originally founded in 1968 by Paul R...
  
  
• Preserve Our Island
  Preserve Our Island
  Preserve Our Islands is a grassroots organization, created by residents of Maury Island, Washington, United States, that is opposed to Glacier Northwest and their efforts to mine aggregate on Maury Island....
  
  
• Rainforest Action Network
  Rainforest Action Network
  Rainforest Action Network is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, with the financial help of Fund for Wild Nature....
  
  
• Resources for the Future
  Resources for the Future
  Resources for the Future is a nonprofit organization that conducts independent research into environmental, energy, and natural resource issues, primarily via economics and other social sciences. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., RFF performs research around the world...
  
   (RFF)
• Republicans for Environmental Protection
• Rising Tide North America
  Rising Tide North America
  Rising Tide North America is a grassroots network of groups and individuals in North America who take action against the root causes of climate change and work towards a just transition to a non-carbon society. Rising Tide North America is part of an international network dedicated to building a...
  
  
• Riverkeeper
  Riverkeeper
  Riverkeeper is an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the Hudson River and its tributaries, as well as the watersheds that provide New York City with its drinking water...
  
  
• Sand County Foundation
  Sand County Foundation
  Sand County Foundation, located in Monona, Wisconsin, USA, is a non-profit private land conservation organization formed in 1965. Its work is inspired by world-renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold’s land management philosophy.- Landholder Leaders :...
  
  
• Save the Redwoods League
• Science & Environmental Policy Project
  Science & Environmental Policy Project
  The Science & Environmental Policy Project is a research and advocacy group financed by private contributions based in Arlington, Virginia in the United States. It was founded in 1990 by atmospheric physicist S. Fred Singer. SEPP disputes the prevailing scientific views of climate change and ozone...
  
   (SEPP)
• Sea Shepherd
  Sea Shepherd
  The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit, marine conservation organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington in the United States. The group uses direct action tactics to protect sealife...
  
  
• Sierra Club
  Sierra Club
  The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
  
  
• Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
  Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
  The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition , is a San Jose, California based research and advocacy group that promotes safe environmental practices in the high tech industry...
  
  
• Student Conservation Association
  Student Conservation Association
  The Student Conservation Association is a non-profit group in the United States whose mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of our environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land through service...
  
  
• Student Environmental Action Coalition
  Student Environmental Action Coalition
  The Student Environmental Action Coalition or SEAC is a student and youth run national network of progressive organizations and individuals based in the United States....
  
   (SEAC)
• Surfrider Foundation
• Sustainable Silicon Valley
  Sustainable Silicon Valley
  Sustainable Silicon Valley is a collaboration of businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations that are identifying and addressing environmental and resource pressures in Silicon Valley....
  
   (SSV)
• Tellus Institute
  Tellus Institute
  The Tellus Institute is a non-profit research and policy organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Its mission is to advance the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and humane global civilization. The Tellus Institute was founded in 1976 by Paul Raskin, Richard Rosen,...
  
  
• Texas Campaign for the Environment
  Texas Campaign for the Environment
  The Texas Campaign for the Environment is a grassroots advocacy 501 Non-profit organization that works on health and environmental issues in the state of Texas in the United States. TCE began when its founders parted ways with Texans United in 1991...
  
  
• The Big Green Bus
  The Big Green Bus
  The Big Green Bus is a project that was founded in 2005 to promote sustainability and renewable energy sources run by Dartmouth College students. Students originally converted a used school bus to run on waste vegetable oil, , but in 2009 upgraded to a 1998 MCI coach bus.The BGB is part of the...
  
  
• The Conservation Fund
  The Conservation Fund
  The Conservation Fund is an American environmental non-profit with a dual charter to pursue both economic development and environmental preservation.The Fund partners with community, government and corporate leaders to fulfill their conservation priorities...
  
  
• The Marine Mammal Center
  The Marine Mammal Center
  The Marine Mammal Center is a private non-profit U.S. organization centered established in 1975 on rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing injured marine mammals. It also serves as a center for environmental research and education regarding marine mammals, namely cetaceans and pinnipeds...
  
  
• The Nature Conservancy
  The Nature Conservancy
  The Nature Conservancy is a US charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive....
  
  
• The Ocean Conservancy
  The Ocean Conservancy
  The Ocean Conservancy is a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., United States.-History:...
  
  
• The School for Field Studies
  The School for Field Studies
  The School for Field Studies is the USA's oldest and largest undergraduate environmental study abroad program. Through its network of field stations, SFS has been teaching students how to address critical environmental problems and providing solutions to local stakeholders...
  
  
• The Wilderness Society
  The Wilderness Society (United States)
  The Wilderness Society is an American organization that is dedicated to protecting America's wilderness. It was formed in 1935 and currently has over 300,000 members and supporters.-Founding:The society was incorporated on January 21, 1935...
  
  
• TreePeople
  TreePeople
  TreePeople is a California based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. TreePeople focuses on promoting the creation of sustainable urban ecosystems through education and the planting and care of trees. TreePeople has been serving the Los Angeles area for over three decades...
  
  
• Union of Concerned Scientists
  Union of Concerned Scientists
  The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States. The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists. James J...
  
  
• Waterkeeper Alliance
  Waterkeeper Alliance
  Waterkeeper Alliance is an environmental organization founded in 1999, responding to a growing movement of organizations with the name Riverkeeper, Baykeeper, Soundkeeper, and other related "keeper" names, of which there are over 150 around the globe...
  
  
• West Harlem Environmental Action
  West Harlem Environmental Action
  West Harlem Environmental Action is a Harlem, New York City based non-profit environmental justice organization focusing on sustainability, public health, pollution, and other urban quality of life issues...
  
   (WEACT)
• WILD Foundation
  WILD Foundation
  The WILD Foundation is a 501 non-profit organization founded in the United States in 1974 by South African Ian Player, and based in Boulder, Colorado....
  
  
• Worldwatch Institute
  Worldwatch Institute
  The Worldwatch Institute is a globally focused environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C. Worldwatch was named as one of the top ten sustainable development research organizations by Globescan Survey of Sustainability Experts.-Mission:...
  
  
• Wyoming Outdoor Council
  Wyoming Outdoor Council
  The Wyoming Outdoor Council is Wyoming’s oldest, independent, membership-based conservation organization. Wyoming native Tom Bell founded the group in 1967, along with Carrol R. Noble, Margaret E. “Mardy” Murie, Dr. Harold McCracken, Ann Lindahl and others...
  
  
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• Campaign to Save The Humans, in So Long And Thanks For All The Fish by Douglas Adams
  Douglas Adams
  Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
  
  
• GreenWorld, in the Trancers II
  Trancers II
  Trancers II is a 1991 American action science fiction film directed by Charles Band. It is the sequel to Trancers starring Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt.The film has been released on DVD through the Trancers boxset or as a single DVD in Europe.-Plot:...
  
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• Reds, in the Mars Trilogy
  Mars trilogy
  The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries...
  
   by Kim Stanley Robinson
  Kim Stanley Robinson
  Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations, such as the fifteen years of research...
  
  

See also

• Environmental community organizations
  Environmental community organizations
  This article provides a list of active citizen-organized environmental community organizations that serve particular cities, towns, unincorporated area, and similar jurisdictions or regions in the United States...
  
  
• List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
• List of renewable energy organizations