Friday, September 5, 2008

Environmental Organizations (Project # 1)
















Melissa Walkin
Environmental Studies








Greenpeace

I would first like to give you a clear understand of what Greenpeace is all about. According to statistics it was first originated by the Greenpeace Foundation in British Columbia, Canada, and Vancouver to oppose the United States testing nuclear device in Amchitka, Alaska. It was later decided that the mean focus of the foundation would be base upon environmental Issues. For example: global warming, nuclear power, old growth, and bottom trawling.

Greenpeace is regionally and nationally well known in many countries, and has a worldwide communication which is affiliated to the Amsterdam based at Greenpeace International.

According to its official website, Greenpeace defines its mission as a global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by ways:
· Catalyzing an energy revolution dealing with climate change
· Defending our oceans by wasteful and destructive fishing and create a global network of marine reserves.
· Protecting the ancient forest, animals, plants, and people
· Working for disarmament and peace, trying to eliminate nuclear weapons.
· Strive to create a clear safe toxic free environment
· Campaign for sustainable agriculture by encouraging socially and ecologically responsible farming practices.

I would personally prefer to join the Greenpeace foundation, meanly because their direct objective is to attract attention to environmental problems that would benefit me as a human by many ways destructions.






Saving endangered species in wild places and rebuilding clean energy

National Resource Defense Council

NRDC is the nations’ most effective environmental action organization in the world. According to statistics it is currently made up of more then 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places with lawyers, scientist and many others world wide to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all.

In addition they strive to support the most pressing environment issues such as moving America beyond oil, curbing global warming, help to reduce toxic chemical out of the environment, saving wildlife and wild places, restoring our ocean and helping china go green.

Their mission is to produce a safe and healthy earth for its people, its plants, and animals and a natural system in which all life depends. At the same time they work to restore the integrity of the element that sustains life. Such as: air, land and water and to oppose endangered natural places. NRDC strive is to affirm the integral place of human being in the environment, to establish good stewardship of the earth, and to protect nature to advance long-term welfare of present and future generations. They most important mission to me would be to work in fostering the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decision that affects their environment.








Wild Spots Foundation

The wild spots foundation work towards preserving endangered and threaten species through education, science and visual arts. According to statistics wild spots was formally organized by Dr. Barry Barker and a small group of students. Its’ strive is to documents species in a variety of ecosystems, access ecotourism, research DNA from a specific Andean Puma, and exhibit the inspiring nature of photography of their work shop.
In accordance with the official web site of the wild spots, it states that its mission is meanly to serve conservation beyond utilitarian with reason be corporating a sense of stewardship, and owner ship to protect the world’s valuable wild spots, in return for the physical and spiritual sustenance it offers for generation to come.

The foundation believes in the strong valves of biodiversity throughout the world. It is their beliefs that exploration actively protects biodiversity.





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