World environmental organizations
GREENPEACE The reason for the creation of this organization was the nuclear tests that the United States conducted in the sixties and seventies. The first unofficial action of the still formally non-existent society took place on October 16, 1970 in Vancouver as a protest against nuclear tests of increasingly powerful bombs. And already on September 15, 1971, environmental activists sent a ship to Alaska to stop dangerous tests in an earthquake-prone region. At the moment, the organization's field of vision is such issues as global climate change, deforestation from the tropics to the Arctic and Antarctic, overfishing, commercial whaling, radiation hazard, the development of renewable energy sources and resource conservation, environmental pollution with hazardous chemicals , sustainable agriculture, conservation of the Arctic. Текст слайда WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, WWF The immediate predecessor of the World Wildlife Fund was The Conservation Foundation, established in New York in 1947 by Henry Fairfield Osborn. The "Nature Conservation Fund" was created to support capitalist-oriented environmental practices. In 1984, it changed its name to the World Wide Fund for Nature, retaining its former acronym, WWF. The renaming was done in order to better match the activities of the organization. However, in the US and Canada, the organization continues to operate under its former name. Subsequently, the World Wide Fund for Nature opened offices and carried out activities in many countries of the world. Initially, he only funded existing non-governmental organizations that specialized in the protection of endangered species, using the best science-based methods for this. In the future, as the fund's resources increased, the scope of its activities also included the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of natural resources, the reduction of environmental pollution, and climate change. WWF began not only to finance, but also independently implement environmental projects and campaigns.