List of environmental organizations

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

In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment. The organization may be a charity, a trust, a non-governmental organization, a governmental organization or an intergovernmental organization. Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local. Some environmental issues that environmental organizations focus on include pollution, plastic pollution, waste, resource depletion, human overpopulation and climate change.

Intergovernmental organizations

Global organizations

• Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Earth System Governance Project (ESGP)
• School strike for climate or Fridays for Future (FFF)
• Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• Intersectional Ecoliberation Movement (IELM)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• European Environment Agency (EEA)
• Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA)

Governmental agencies

Many states have agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:

International non-governmental organizations

These organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and/or conservation efforts:

Continental

National non-governmental organizations

These organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and/or conservation efforts at the national level:

United States

See also

• Environmentalism
• Environmental community organizations
• Filmography of environmentalism
• List of animal rights groups
• List of nature conservation organisations
• List of environmental ministries
• List of green parties
• List of population concern organizations
• List of renewable energy organizations
• List of environmental organisations topics
• List of international environmental agreements

References

Further reading

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

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Conservation organisations and groups

Organisations

• American Prairie Foundation
• Australian Wildlife Conservancy
• BirdLife International
• Bombay Natural History Society
• Conservation International
• Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
• Frankfurt Zoological Society
• Fauna and Flora International
• Friends of the Earth
• Greenpeace
• Malaysian Nature Society
• National Wildlife Federation
• National Audubon Society
• International Union for Conservation of Nature
• Marine Conservation Society
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• The Nature Conservancy
• Panthera
• Sea Shepherd
• Sierra Club
• The Conservation Fund
• The Conservation Volunteers
• Wildlife Conservation Network
• Wildlife Conservation Society
• World Wide Fund for Nature
• Zoological Society of London

Key topics

• Community-based conservation
• Conservation community
• Conservation movement
• Nature conservation
• Marine conservation
  • activism
• Protected area
  • marine
  • 30 by 30
• Restoration ecology
• Wildlife conservation

Related

• List of environmental organizations

• Index of conservation articles
• List of conservation issues
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