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People for the ethical treatment of animals, PETA, is one of the largest animal rights organizations in the world. It has more than a million members and supporters. Founded in nineteen eighty, PETA's aim is to protect the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA focuses its attention on the areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing and entertainment industries.

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The Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG, protects natural ecological systems and the species of plants and animals they contain from the species brought to these systems from outside. Global trade and communication lead to the fact that new species invade territories where they don't belong. In these cases, the species belonging to those territories often disappear. The ISSG is a global group of scientists and experts from forty-one countries. Its center is in New Zealand. It has three regional sections in North America, Europe and South Asia.

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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, RSPCA, has been working since eighteen twenty-four, encouraging kindness to animals, trying to stop cruelty to them. In eighteen forty, the society's work was considered to be so successful that Queen Victoria gave her permission for the SPCA to be called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. New branches of the society began to appear, and the one hundred seventy-five branches in England and Wales that exist today run thirty-eight clinics and thirty-three animal centers.

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Greenpeace is an international organization whose members work actively to protect the environment from damage caused by industrial processes or military activities. It's known for using its own boats to try to prevent governments from testing nuclear weapons, to prevent companies from pouring poisonous chemicals into the sea, and to try to save whales and other sea animals from being killed. Greenpeace has been campaigning against environmental degradation since nineteen seventy-one.

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The Worldwide Fund for Nature, WWF, is one of the world's largest independent conservation organizations with almost five million supporters and a global network active in more than one hundred countries. WWF's mission is to stop degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

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Kids for a Clean Environment organization started in nineteen eighty-nine. The first club had six members. Very soon it became popular and today there are more than three hundred thousand individual members. It is one of the largest youth environmental organizations. Its aim is to give children as much information about environment problems as possible and to encourage them to become green and help nature wherever it is possible. Membership is free to school children and teachers.