Chapter 24 Useful websites

  • Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD)
    US-based non-profit environmental organisation that focuses on protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, and grassroots activism.
  • Earthjustice
    US-based non-profit public interest law organisation dedicated to environmental issues, including biodiversity defense, clean energy, oceans, sustainable food and farming, and toxic exposure and health.
  • Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
    UK-based nongovernmental organisation that investigates and exposes crimes against wildlife and the environment.
  • Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
    US-based non-profit, non-advocacy environmental that provides research and produces reports on a wide range of issues, including climate and energy, environmental governance, environmental health, freshwater and ocean, and land and biodiversity
  • Extinction Rebellion (XR)
    A decentralised, internal and politically non-partisan movement that uses nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to persuade governments to act with respect to biodiversity loss, climate change, and the risk of social and ecological collapse
  • Greenpeace
    Nongovernmental organisation with offices in over forty countries that seeks to change attitudes and behaviour, protect and conserve the environment, and promote peace through a variety of tactics, including direct action.
  • International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol): Environmental crime (interpol.int)
    Intergovernmental organisation that works to dismantle criminal networks behind environmental crime, coordinate and develop international law enforcement, and provide tools and support for environmental law enforcement agencies.
  • Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
    US-based non-profit international environmental advocacy group that uses advocacy and litigation, among other approaches, in the areas of climate change, communities, energy, food, health, oceans, water and the wild.
  • The Nature Conservancy
    US-based non-profit environmental organisation whose conservation initiatives pertain to cities, climate, land, oceans and water.
  • Rainforest Alliance
    US-based non-profit environmental organisation that undertakes efforts to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable lives and livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behaviour.
  • Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS)
    US-based non-profit marine conservation organisation that uses direct action tactics to protect marine life.
  • UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
    Practitioner and advocacy organisation concerned with UK environmental law.
  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
    UN agency involved in partnership and advocacy for sustainable development and protection of the environment.
  • United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    Agency of the federal government of the United States created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.
  • World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) (WWF)
    World’s largest conservation organisation, based in Europe, that uses lobbying, consultancy and research to bring about wilderness preservation and the reduction of humans’ footprint on the environment.
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