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The Environmental Defense Fund is a nonprofit focused on protecting the earth. The EDF combats issues such as global warming, endangered species protection, and pollution, among others. Those looking to get involved in the defense of Mother Nature can sign petitions, stage demonstrations, and encourage collaboration between their workplaces and the EDF.
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The Environmental Defense Fund is one of the world’s leading environmental organizations, doing critical research and advocacy work in order to fight for a healthy and sustainable future for the environment. The nonprofit was founded in 1967. The first battle, however, began a few years earlier, in a case against the harmful impact of DDT. DDT was a type of pesticide used widely across farms that would carry through the food chain, poisoning everything from the crops themselves to the animals and humans that ate them. DDT especially threatened the survival and heath of the osprey, bald eagle, and peregrine falcon. A group of researchers and scientists in Long island, New York began to take note of the decline of these birds’ populations and found that DDT was a major factor. The group decided to advocate for the environment not just through scientif...
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