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Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET)
The Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET) is committed to maintaining biodiversity in earth's natural ecosystems.

Critical Mass Energy Project (Public Citizen)
The Critical Mass Energy Project is part of the Public Citizen organization.

Earthlife Africa
Earthlife Africa is a political and environmental groups that is committed to respecting the planet.

ECONET Brazil
ECONET Brazil is an environmental organization based in Brazil that attempts to protect the environment and influence the government.

Environment Careers Organization
The Environment Careers Organization is an educational organization that helps people who are interested in an environmental career find a job.

Environmental Defense Fund
The EDF's objectives include stabilizing the planet's climate, protecting the oceans, protecting human health, and maintaining biodiversity.

Forest Ecology Network
The Forest Ecology Network was created to protect the native forests in the US state of Maine.

Friends of the Earth
The Guardian newspaper called Friends of the Earth "the UK's most effective environment group."

Friends of the Environment Foundation
The Canada Trust Friends of the Environment Foundation started the group in 1990.

Global Witness
The focus of Global Witness is fighting cases where the exploitation of the environment is used to fund human rights abuses.

Greenpeace International
Greenpeace is a non-political group that is devoted to protecting the environment.

Idealist
Idealist was created by a nonprofit organization called Action Without Borders.

International Fund for Animal Welfare
The International Fund for Animal Welfare was created to prevent the destruction of harp and hood seals.

League of Conservation Voters
The League of Conservation Voters is a political group in the United States.  The organization aims at gaining bipartisan support for environmental conservation issues.

National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation was founded in 1936 and now advocates conservation of the environment and attempts to influence the government.

Natural Resources Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council is an organization based in the United States with the aim of saving the earth and all of its natural inhabitants.

People for Animal Rights Germany
People for Animal Rights Germany is an association of animal rights group throughout Germany.

Rainforest Action Network
The Rainforest Action Network is a California-based group that seeks to protect the rainforests by taking non-violent, direct action.

Sierra Club
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States aimed at influencing public policy.

Student Environmental Action Coalition
The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) is an environmental group led by students.  The organization is a network of other student organizations throughout the United States.

The Audubon Society
The Audubon Society was founded in 1905.  It is named after John James Audubon, who was well known as an explorer, artist, and ornithologist.

The Coral Reef Alliance
The Coral Reef Alliance works toward maintaining coral reefs throughout the world.

The Redberry Pelican Project (Canada) Foundation
The Redberry Pelican Project (Canada) Foundation's original aim was to ensure that tourism to the province's Redberry Lake was environmentally acceptable.

The Wild Ones
The Wild Ones is an organization consisting mainly of students and their teachers.

World Wildlife Fund
The World Wildlife Fund is an organization aimed at protecting the world's remaining wildlife and wildlands.  The group has now existed for over 36 years, and has mounted some impressive accomplishments in that time.

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