Nature and Environment  

This page lists websites which advocate protection of the environment and natural world.

Earth Trust
Earth Trust is an international conservation organization devoted to the preservation of wildlife and the natural environment. Its projects include the International Whale Campaign, the International Dolphin Campaign, the Tiger Campaign, the Rhino Campaign, the Bear Campaign, and the Sea Turtle Protection Project. Earth Trust was founded in 1976 and is a non-profit organization.

World Bird Sanctuary
The mission of this non-profit organization is to secure the future of all bird species in their natural environments. It was founded in 1977. Its programs include field studies, rehabilitation, and captive breeding.

Environmental Defense
Founded in 1967 as the Environmental Defense Fund, this organization has more than half a million members. To achieve its goals, it tries to work with businesses and communities in a cooperative way, to find constructive solutions for real problems. Its staff includes numerous professional biologists, physicists, and chemists.

EarthSave International
The goal of this non-profit organization is to help protect the environment, and also improve general welfare, by influencing the shopping choices that people make, especially with regard to food and diet. Members of the organization believe that less meat consumption would not only improve the general health of the world's population, but would also increase the overall efficiency of total food production, which would help eliminate hunger and reduce damage to the environment.

Earth First
This group, started in 1979, is one of the major voices of the environment movement. Its basic goal is to protect and preserve the earth and the natural world from human exploitation and destruction. Members of the group "believe that life exists for its own sake, and that industrial civilization and its philosophy are anti-Earth, anti-woman and anti-liberty."

Saving Our Seed
This purpose of this organization is to save old heirloom seed varieties that are no longer available commercially. Working with farmers in the southeastern United States, it collects, studies, propagates and stores seeds of historically important crops of the region, including tomato, pepper, brassica and beans. The organization receives funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and various Universities.

RainForest Action Network
This organization campaigns to protect endangered forests and the rights of indigneous peoples all over the world. To this end, it also works to stop destructive investments by large corporations in mining, lumber, and development activities.

Other Categories  

• Social Causes
  Websites that speak out for the rights of repressed minority groups or neglected segments of society

• Personal Freedom
  Websites that oppose attempts to take away personal freedom and civil liberties

• Political Dissent
  Websites that take unpopular political positions or call for radical changes to existing governmental systems

• Anti-Corporate
  Websites that oppose the policies and practices of large corporations and institutions. Such practices might include collusion, artificial price controls, exploitation of people, lobbying for special tax benefits, unfair awarding of contracts, and exploitation of natural resources.

• Alternative Information Sources
  Websites that publicize news and information ignored or suppressed by the mainstream media. Also includes groups that fight against governmental and private censorship.

• Religious Dissent
  Websites that oppose the beliefs and practices of major established religious groups, or that promote the beliefs of small lesser-known groups.

• Peripheral Science
  Websites which put forward theories about phenomena that lie outside the scope of conventional science.

• Skepticism
  This page lists websites which express doubts about majority opinions or offer counter-arguments to conventional beliefs. This can include commonly accepted ideas about political systems, religious practices, and social policies.

• Alternative Healthcare
  Websites that oppose the policies of established healthcare systems and/or advocate alternative methods of treatment such as natural remedies.

• Other Resources
  Other useful resources.

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