Caring for the environment is agreed that it is definitely something we need to believe about in our everyday lives, by means of recycling, walking instead of driving and conserving water and the like when necessary.
On a bigger scale events such as Earth Day each and every April, when a collaboration of countries across the globe endeavour to highlight environmental suffering via a series of activities such as an hour of darkness, when every home and organization is needed to turn off all of their electricity for 1 hour and Planet Environment Day bring the world’s attention to just how important conserving our environment is.
The following charities and organisations have gone a long way in ensuring that the common population provide, at least some thought to our environment, involved in lobbying, advocacy or conservation, or all, or a number of of these:
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental agency. Originating in British Columbia Canada in the early 1970′s, Greenpeace became Greenpeace on 15th September 1971, when it sent a chartered boat (named Greenpeace) to protest against nuclear testing in the Alaskan wilderness.
Considering that then Greenpeace has grown enormously, with offices in over 40 countries committed to campaigning for a number of causes including climate change, over-fishing, protecting the world’s forests and disarmament.
The most infamous environmental incident occurred when the Greenpeace boat, Rainbow Warrior which was in the South Pacific campaigning against French Nuclear Testing. The French Government bombed the vessel in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, killing a Dutch photographer. Soon after public outcry the French had been ordered to pay the NZ government compensation.
Pals of the Earth
Friends of the Earth International is a group of international environmental organisations active in over 76 countries.
This non-governmental organisation campaigns for alter in the most urgent environmental and social problems aiming to change to produce environmentally sustainable and socially fair society.
Each country where FOE operate runs separately to other factions of the group and have a selection to affiliate to the international group, which usually they do, to enhance their strength and impact with numbers.
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
The World Wide Fund for Nature is synonymous with the Giant Panda that is its logo, and was formerly identified as the Globe Wildlife Fund (which remains its name in Canada and the United States. This NGO has been committed to conservation analysis and restoration of the environment for practically 40 years.
It has 5 million supporters in over 90 countries and supports about 1300 conservation projects across the globe.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)
The Environmental Investigation Agency was founded as an NGO in 1984 by three UK environmentalists.
Its objective is to investigate and expose crimes against wildlife and the environment.
EIA investigators function undercover, gathering evidence of environmental and wildlife crime.
The evidence in film and photographic form, is presented to the media and government policy makers “to inform, and persuade that action need to be taken in order to protect the planet’s most precious species, habitats and important ecosystems.”