80+ Environmental Organizations to Follow on Twitter
These organizations use tactics varying from direct action to job training, but they all are working to protect the planet in a substantial way.
Through twitter, anyone can stay up to date with their latest efforts to restore and protect habitats, influence environmental policy, and curb climate change. Take the opportunity to tap into the thoughts of those pushing for change and perhaps find some ideas of how you can help.
In alphabetical order:
AIDG – @aidg
Alliance for Climate – @ClimateEd
Alliance to Save Energy – @ToSaveEnergy
Amazon Watch – @AmazonWatch
Animal Aid – @AnimalAid
Bikes for the World – @bikesftworld
Blue Planet Society – @Seasaver
Camp for Climate Action – @ClimateCampLdn
Chesapeake Climate Action Network – @CCAN
Clean Air Conservancy – @CleanAirConserv
Clean Air Georgia – @CleanAirGA
Climate Cycle Africa – @ClimateCycle
Climate Rescue – @ClimateRescue
Conservation NW – @ConservationNW
Defenders of Wildlife – @Defenders
Earth Hour – @earthhour
Earth Institute – @earthinstitute
Earth Island Institute – @EarthIsland
Earthjustice – @Earthjustice
Earth Share – @EarthShare
ECO Canada – @ecocanada
Ecojustice – @Ecojustice_ca
Eco Preservation Society – @EcoPreservation @EcoInteractive
Endangered Species Coalition – @stopextinction
Environmental Defense Fund - @EnvDefenseFund
Farm Animal Rights Movement – @FARMUSA
FarmForward – @FarmForward
Farm Sanctuary – @FarmSanctuary
Food & Water Watch – @Foodandwater
Forest Ethics – @ForestEthics
Friends of the Earth – @wwwfoecouk @foe_us
Global Green USA – @globalgreenusa
Go Sustainable – @gosustainable
Greener Leith – @greenerleith
Green For All – @GreenForAll
Greenpeace – @Greenpeace @Greenpeace_Intl @GreenpeaceUSA
Healthy Child Healthy World – @healthy_child
Hawk Conservancy – @HawkConservancy
Heal the Bay – @HealtheBay
Humane Society of the United States – @HumaneSociety
Institute for Sustainable Communities- @SustainableComm
International Elephant Foundation – @IEF_elephants
Just Green – @Just_Green
Kiva – @Kiva
LCA Trust – @preserveland
Liberation BC – @liberationbc
Live Earth – @LiveEarth
National Park Foundation – @GoParks
National Wildlife Federation – @NWF
Natural Resources Defense Council – @NRDC @NRDCswitchboard
Nature Conservancy – @nature_org
Nature New South Whales – @naturensw
Northwest Earth Institute – @nwearth
Ohio Wildlife Rehab – @OWRA
Oregon Wild – @OregonWild
Pacific Forest Trust – @PacificForest
Rainforest Action Network – @RAN
Rainforest Alliance – @RnfrstAlliance
Rainforest Rescue – @SaveRainforests
Royal Society for Protecting Birds – @Natures_Voice
RSPCA – @RSPCA_official
Save Our Rivers – @SaveOurRivers
Save the Frogs – @savethefrogs
Sierra Club – @Sierra_Magazine
Sierra Club Great Lakes – @SC_Great_Lakes
Student Conservation Association – @the_sca
Surfrider Foundation – @SurfriderHQ @surfridereurope
Sustain US – @SustainUSAgents
The Australian Conservation Foundation – @AusConservation
The Climate Project – @ClimateProject
The Model Forest Policy Program – @MFPP
The Wilderness Society – @Wilderness
The Wild Foundation – @WILDfoundation
Trees, Water & People – @treeswater
Urban Land Institute – @UrbanLandInst
Vegan Outreach – @VeganOutreach
WA Wilderness – @Wa_Wilderness
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust – @wwtlondon
World Wildlife Fund – @World_Wildlife
1planet1ocean – @OceanDoctor
1Sky – @1Sky
This will be most useful as a comprehensive list, so please let me know if I missed any by sending me a tweet @AFelsinger.
Photo via Muffet on Flickr under Creative Commons license.






Don’t forget @oceana!
For those interested in China based groups.
China Environmental Law – chinaenvirolaw
Cleaner Greener China – @greenerchina
future China – @FutureChina
Greenpeace – @greenpeacecn
Grenovate – @greennovate
JUCCCE – @juccce
NRDC – @greenlawchina
Awesome list, thank you!
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This is a great list. Thanks.
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Thanks Alex for this great resource and the mention – we’ve already seen a new batch of followers since your post.
You might also consider joining the Tweet Group at TWIBES, an interesting resource to gather and share information.
http://www.twibes.com/group/Wildlife#
We were delighted to be named one of 80 environmental organizations to follow on Twitter – thank you! We welcome any feedback, suggestions and ideas for making our tweets more valuable to everybody.
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