List of environmental organizations

(Redirected from Conservation organisation)

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 edit

Global organizations edit

Governmental agencies edit

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

International non-governmental organizations edit

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

International edit

Continental edit

National non-governmental organizations edit

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

Albania edit

Australia edit

Austria edit

Bangladesh edit

Belgium edit

Bolivia edit

Cambodia edit

Canada edit

Cape Verde edit

China edit

Colombia edit

Costa Rica edit

Croatia edit

Czech Republic edit

Denmark edit

Estonia edit

Ethiopia edit

Finland edit

France edit

Germany edit

Greece edit

Hong Kong edit

India edit

Indonesia edit

Ireland edit

Israel edit

Italy edit

Kenya edit

Korea edit

North Macedonia edit

Madagascar edit

Malta edit

Nepal edit

Netherlands edit

New Zealand edit

Norway edit

Pakistan edit

Palestine edit

Philippines edit

Poland edit

Portugal edit

Puerto Rico edit

Sierra Leone edit

  • ENFORAC (Environmental Forum for Action)

South Africa edit

Spain edit


Switzerland edit

Tanzania edit

Uganda edit

Ukraine edit

United Arab Emirates edit

United Kingdom edit

United States edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "China Greentech Initiative". Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Service Co, Ltd. Retrieved 9 May 2013.

Further reading edit

  • 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.