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Natural
Resources Defense Council
NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000
members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and
wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment
for all living things. |
World
Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's
natural environment and to build a future in which humans
live in harmony with nature by conserving the world's
biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable
natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction
of pollution and wasteful consumption. |
World
Forest Institute
Supported by a broad network of global contacts in forestry,
WFI provides valuable services designed to meet the diverse
needs of manufacturers, consultants, researchers, brokers,
government agencies, and others. |
World
Conservation Monitoring Centre
UNEP-WCMC's forest program offers information at national
levels to improve management of forests worldwide. It
measures forest quality, biodiversity in tropical forests
and addresses problems that countries with limited forest
resources face. |
The
World Conservation Union
IUCN's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies
throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity
of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources
is equitable and ecologically sustainable. |
World
Resources Institute
WRI is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research
to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve
people's lives. |
The
Ecological Design Institute
...proposes a marriage of nature and technology, using ecology as the basis for design. The strategies of conservation, regeneration, and stewardship can be applied at all levels of scale to produce revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, communities, cities and applied technologies.
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