ELBS+Organisations+and+Laws

ELBS Organisations
It's not just us who are interested in sustainability and the environment - there are many different organisations and groups involved in different area, with different political interests and different styles of making their point. We need to know about the following:


 * [|Linking Environment and Farming]
 * [|World Wide Fund for Nature]
 * [|Greenpeace]
 * [|Friends of the Earth]
 * [|Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)]
 * [|The Wildlife Trusts]
 * [|Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG)]
 * [|National Farmers Union]

These are just some of the organisations - we'll be mentioning more as we progress.

Law and the environment
Luckily for our planet, governments have passed laws concerned with environmental protection. We need to know what these laws say, why they are important and how people are made to stick to them. These are some of the laws we'll be looking at.
 * Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) European Directive 2001
 * Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
 * Environmental Protection Act 1990
 * Water Act 2003
 * Town and Country Planning Act 1990
 * Control of Pollution Act 1989
 * Waste Strategy 2007
 * Food Safety Legislation
 * Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act

Although these all sound quite complicated, we'll find out what they are and why they're important as the year goes on.