"Green Organizations"

Nature Protecting Organizations

Kids for A Clean Environment

• Statement Of Mission The mission of Kids for A Clean Environment is to provide information on environmental issues to children, to encourge and facilitate youth's involvement with effective environmental action and to recognize those efforts which result in the improvement of nature.
• Kids F.A.C.E.® translated =  Kids (F)or (A) (C)lean (E) nvironment . Kids F.A.C.E. started in 1989, in Nashville by Melissa Poe. The first club had six members. Impetus for the creation of Kids F.A.C.E. was driven by Melissa's correspondence to then - President Bush to help clean up the environment. Over  250 billboards  with Melissa's letter to the president were placed across the United States in April, 1990. First chapter of the club was formed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1990 after Melissa's appearance on the TODAY show. After that appearance, the organization started to grow. Today there are more than 2,000 club chapters in fifteen countries and more than 300,000 individual members.  The organization is the world's largest youth environmental organization. Membership is free to children and teachers. Kids F.A.C.E. members have distributed and planted over 1 Million trees. Ongoing tree-planting projects include the creation of Kid's Yards - backyard wildlife habitats and currently Kids F.A.C.E. is involved in the exciting  Earth Odyssey . Kids F.A.C.E. incoming 800 telephone hot-line responds to children's requests to become members or to receive information. As many as 40,000 calls have been recorded in one month. Kids F.A.C.E. members created the world's largest environmental flag - measuring 100' x 200'  - to symbolize the concerns youth have about nature and the future world. The Flag was unveiled during the twenty-fifth celebration of Earth Day in Washington, D.C. Kids F.A.C.E. has received national awards for its youth environmental projects including the "1997 A Pledge and a Promise" award for the Power of One program.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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These are  lists of  invasive species  by country or region. A  species  is regarded as  invasive  if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a  native species ), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location, threatening agriculture and/or the local  biodiversity . The term  invasive species  refers to a subset of those species defined as  introduced species , for which see  List of introduced species .  

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

• Greenpeace

  is a  nongovernmental   environmental  organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in  Amsterdam , the Netherlands . Greenpeace was founded in 1971 by  Irving Stowe  and  Dorothy Stowe ,  Canadian  and US ex-pat environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the  Earth  to nurture  life  in all its  diversity " and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as  climate change ,  deforestation , overfishing ,  commercial whaling ,  genetic engineering , and  anti-nuclear  issues. It uses  direct action ,  lobbying ,  research , and  ecotage  to achieve its goals.

The World Wide Fund for Nature

• The  World Wide Fund for Nature  ( WWF ) is an  international non-governmental organization  founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of  human impact on the environment . It was formerly named the  World Wildlife Fund , which remains its official name in  Canada  and the  United States .
• WWF is the world's largest  conservation organization , with over five million supporters worldwide, working in more than 100 countries and supporting around 3,000 conservation and environmental projects.

• WWF's  giant panda  logo originated from a panda named  Chi Chi  that had been transferred from  Beijing Zoo  to  London Zoo  in 1958, three years before WWF became established. Being famous as the only panda residing in the Western world at that time, her uniquely recognisable physical features and status as an endangered species were seen as ideal to serve the organization's need for a strong recognisable symbol that would overcome all language barriers. [24]  The organization also needed an animal that would have an impact in black and white printing.