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Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" [3] and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war [4] and anti ...
Approximately 600 [3] Website. www.sierraclub.org. The Sierra Club is an American environmental organization with chapters in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The club was founded in 1892, in San Francisco, by preservationist John Muir. A product of the progressive movement, it was one of the first large-scale environmental ...
2001–2005: (2/13 seats) Minneapolis City Council Minnesota: 2018–2019 Minority (1/141 seats) Maryland House of Delegates Maryland: 2017–2018 Minority (2/154* seats) [a] Maine House of Representatives Maine: 2002–2006 Minority (1/151 seats) 2016–2017 Minority (2/5 seats) Anoka Water Conservation District Minnesota: 2013–2015 Minority ...
America had its own conservation movement in the 19th century, most often characterized by George Perkins Marsh, author of Man and Nature.The expedition into northwest Wyoming in 1871 led by F. V. Hayden and accompanied by photographer William Henry Jackson provided the imagery needed to substantiate rumors about the grandeur of the Yellowstone region, and resulted in the creation of ...
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is a nonprofit organization headquartered in San Diego that operates the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. [1] Founded in 1916 as the Zoological Society of San Diego under the leadership of Harry M. Wegeforth, the organization claims the largest zoological society membership in the world, with more than 250,000 member households and 130,000 child ...
Island Conservation is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Alliance for Zero Extinction, [20] and has a Memorandum of Understanding with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, [21] and BirdLife International, [22] amongst others.
Some of the founding members of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, notably Jeanette Fitzsimons, Rod Donald and Mike Ward, had been active members of the Values Party at the outset of the Green movement in the 1970s. At the 1989 local-body elections, multiple candidates stood for local government positions under the "Green" label.
2.2 Biodiversity and conservation. 2.3 Administrative divisions. 3 Government and politics. ... Liberia was a founding member of the League of Nations, ...