Anenvironmental organization is anorganization coming out of theconservation orenvironmental movementsthat seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse ordegradationfrom human forces.
In this sense the environment may refer to thebiophysical environment or thenatural environment. The organization may be acharity, atrust, anon-governmental organization, agovernmental organization or anintergovernmental organization. Environmental organizations can be global,national,regional or local. Someenvironmental issues that environmental organizations focus on includepollution,plastic pollution,waste,resource depletion,human overpopulation andclimate change.
Many states haveagencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment:
Theseorganizations are involved inenvironmental management,lobbying,advocacy, and/orconservation efforts:
Theseorganizations are involved inenvironmental management,lobbying,advocacy, and/orconservation efforts at the national level:
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 inair pollution are associated with the foundings of organizations focused onecosystem well-being andpublic health.
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