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Environmental groups and campaigns

Activists' Legal Project: "The Activists' Legal Project provides information about the law to people who are thinking of taking direct action, or who have taken direct action".
Arboricultural Information Line
Archaeologists and Development: Saving archaeology and heritage from development
Campaign for Better Transport: formerly known as Transport 2000.
Campaign for Planning Sanity (CfPS): planning advice and support for community groups and campaigns
Centre for Alternative Technology: Renewable energy and low-impact technology
Chapter 7: The Lands is Ours Planning Office: Good material on rural sustainability, sustainable woodlands, and low-impact developments
Christian Aid: Christian charity campaigning to relieve poverty
The Civic Trust: Improving quality of towns and cities and preserving urban heritage
Climate Law: Enforcing climate change law
Common Ground: Celebrating "local distinctiveness"
Composting Association: Promoting composts and composting
Council for British Archaeology: Supporting British archaeologists
Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE): Countryside campaigners
Earth First!: Radical environmental campaigners
Ecological Design Association: Designing buildings with the environment in mind
Eco-Village Network: Supporting sustainable eco-villages
FARM: The independent voice of farmers
Forest Action Network: Campaigning to save forests from logging
Friends of the Earth: Environmental pressure group based on network of local groups
Future Forests: Buy and plant trees in conservation areas using the Internet
Green Party: Political party based on environmental values
Greenpeace UK: UK wing of international pressure group
Greenpeace International: Environmental pressure group
International Rivers Network and European Rivers Network : Restoring rivers, decommissioning dams, opposing diversions
Internet Rights: Helping people to use the Internet to increase democracy and to campaign on social justice issues.
The Land Is Ours: land rights issues
Liberty: promoting civil liberties and human rights
Marine Conservation Society: Sea conservation issues
Mast Sanity: Campaign against badly sited mobile phone and Tetra masts in the UK.
National Park Portal: Links to groups working on national park issues from Oliver Tickell
National Society for Clean Air (NSCA): Campaigns on air pollution and toxics
National Trust: Conserving environment and heritage by buying threatened places
No New Nukes!: Opposing construction of new nuclear power plants in the UK
Pesticides Action Network: pesticides and chemicals issues
The Ramblers: Walkers who support footpaths and rights of way
REVOLT: Fighting powerline proposals and pylons
Road Alert: Campaign against road building and airport expansion
Road Block: Networking information about UK anti-road campaigns
RSPB: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
RSPCA: Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
School Energy: Energy saving grants for schools
Society for Ecological Restoration: Conservation by regeneration and restoration
Soil Association: Promotes organic farming
Surfers Against Sewage: UK campaign against sea and beach pollution
Trees of Time and Place: Planting native trees for the millennium
UK Rivers Network: river campaigns and community action across the UK and Ireland
URGENT: Urban Regeneration Greenfield Environment Network of UK housing campaigns
The Wildlife Trusts: County-based wildlife conservation groups
The Unofficial Wildlife Trust page: comprehensive links to wildlife and environment groups maintained by Oliver Tickell
The Woodland Trust: Buying land and creating/managing woodlands.
World Development Movement: Relieving poverty in developing countries
World Voices: International environmental forum for young people
WWF: International conservation organization focussed on threatened wildlife and habitats

Campaigning

Using the law to challenge a planning decision: an EarthRights briefing
Campaign Strategy.org: free campaign planning advice from Chris Rose
Environmental activism online useful tips from WWF
Free Range Activism website: (formerly Paul Mobbs home page)
Campaign for Planning Sanity
The Campaigning Handbook by Mark Lattimer. DSC Publications. Tel +44 (0)207 209 5151.
Environmental campaigners guide to archaeology
An Introduction to Campaign Strategy
Roadblock: How people power is wrecking the roads programme by Alarm UK.

Other useful resources

Introduction to water pollution: A background briefing from the UK Rivers Network
Finding out about water pollution: A comprehensive page of links, also from the UK Rivers Network
Finding out about air pollution: More from the UK Rivers Network

International environmental law organisations

UK law and the Courts

European law and Courts

EUR-Lex - European Union law
European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance
European Environmental Law Home Page
European Environmental Law: includes treaties, case law, documents, legislation, recent ECJ judgements, etc.
European Commission

European directives on environmental law

Ambient air quality (Council Directive 96/62/EC of 27 September 1996 on ambient air quality assessment and management)
Bathing water (Council Directive 76/160/EEC of 8 December 1975 concerning the quality of bathing water)
Birds Directive (Council Directive 79/409/EEC concerning protection of wild birds)
Drinking water (Council Directive 98/83/EEC)
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Council Directive 85/337 of 27 June 1985 as modified by Direcive 97/11/EC of 3 March 1997) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment)
Environmental Information(Council Directive 90/313/EEC, of 7 June 1990 on the freedom of access to information on the environment)

The Environmental Information Regulations 1992, Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 3240 - the UK law implementation of the Environmental Information Directive.

GMOs (Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms)
Habitats (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitatsand of wild fauna and flora )

The Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994, Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2716 - the UK law implementation of the Habitats Directive.

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPCC) (Council Directive 96/61 of 24 September 1996 concerning Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC))
Nitrates (Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources)
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Biodiversity: Guidance for Practitioners: a comprehensive, 94-page guide to the new SEA directive, from English Nature and others (803 KB PDF file)
Strategic Environmental Assessment: Studies, guidelines and reports: definitive guidance from the European Commission.
Water: summary of European water quality directives, legislation, initiatives
Water Framework Directive (Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991)

UK Government

General legal advice

The Complete Legal Advice Guide