Links

Last updated: March 6, 2007.

This page will take you to sites run by other campaign groups and also offers some general campaigning tips and techniques that may help you.

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 Planning Sanity (CfPS): planning advice and support for community groups and campaigns
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND): opposing nuclear weapons and nuclear energy
• 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 National Parks: Looking after our "wilderness areas"
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Schnews: The radical weekly news-sheet from Brighton
• 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 tips

• Campaign Strategy.org: free campaign planning advice from Chris Rose
• BBC - Action Network - A to Z of campaigning: Comprehensive guides to all aspects of campaigning.
• BBC - Action Network - The planning system in England and Wales: If you're fighting developments, you need to know how the system works—and this explains it well.
• 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. Lessons learned from fighting road schemes can also be applied to most other campaigns.
• The Activist Toolbox: A marvellous bag of tricks from the UHC Collective.

Government

• Central Office of Information: government press releases
• Government News Network: UK government press releases
• Charity Commission
• Countryside Agency
• Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
• Department for Transport
• Department of Trade and Industry
• English Heritage
• English Nature
• Environment Agency
• Highways Agency
• Houses of Parliament
• Environment, Transport, and Regions Select Committee of the House of Commons
• Human Rights Unit
• Local Government Ombudsman
• The Planning Inspectorate
• Scottish Parliament
• Stationery Office: Official Documents Home Page

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)