Title: Estonian Council of Environmental NGOs (EKO)

URL: http://www.eko.org.ee/

Description: In the early spring of 2002 ten Estonian environmental NGOs founded the Estonian Council of Environmental NGOs (EKO). Today nine non-governmental environmental organisations belong to the council and two organisations plan on joining. EKO is an informal politically independent cooperation network that helps environmental activists jointly achieve the environmental protection goals that are important for all of us. Until now EKO members have made joint efforts mainly to make Estonian forestry, agriculture, and energy policies, and planning decisions more environmentally friendly.

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Subject:   Environmental education,  Estonia,  Environmental law,  Conservation

Title: Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF)

URL: http://www.elfond.ee/

Description: Since 1991, the Estonian Fund for Nature has worked to preserve Estonia's natural diversity and promote the sustainable use of its natural resources through environmental education, nature conservation, and sustainable development. (See also the related site http://www.rohelinevarav.ee/.)

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Subject:   Sustainable development,  Environmental protection,  Environmental education

Title: Estonian Seminatural Community Conservation Association (ESCCA)

URL: http://www.pky.ee/

Description: Estonian Seminatural Community Conservation Association (ESCCA) is a nongovernmental organisation that was founded in 1997 in order to guarantee the maintenance of Estonian semi-natural communities. Semi-natural communities are traditional agricultural landscapes that include wooded meadows, alvars, floodplain meadows, coastal meadows, but also other meadows and pastures where grazing animals and mowing have been the only human activities. The ESCCA was brought into being due to the fact that the area of semi-natural communities has become marginal during the 20th century, consequently, the further existence of semi-natural communities as well as of species adapted to those conditions has become questionable. Through the maintenance of traditional rural landscapes ESCCA also supports the preservation of traditional village culture. The main activities of ESCCA include collecting information concerning semi-natural communities, organizing the protection and maintenance of those communities, and thirdly, introducing semi-natural communities to the larger audience.

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Subject:   Heritage,  Estonia,  Non-governmental associations

Title: Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation (Peipsi CTC)

URL: http://www.ctc.ee/

Description: Peipsi Center for Transboundary Cooperation is an international non-profit institute, which works to promote balanced development of border areas, especially in Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe region. The original "Lake Peipsi Project" was begun in 1993 as an informal organization whose primary focus was research environmental issues facing the border between Estonia and Russia. Today, its main activities include nature education and the development of cross-border cooperation.

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Subject:   Environmental education,  International cooperation

Title: Society Against Nõmme Road

URL: http://www.nommeteeselts.ee/

Description: Society Against Nõmme Road is a Tallinn-based NGO that was founded in 1999. Its main activities include environmental protection and civil society development in the capital of Estonia.

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Title: Tartu Environmental Education Centre (TEEC)

URL: http://www.tartuloodusmaja.ee/

Description: Tartu Environmental Education Centre is a diverse, open and friendly organization. It promotes an environmentally friendly way of living from generation to generation in Estonia. Its facilities and programs include the children and young people's extracurricular program at the Tartu Nature School, the Environmental Information Centre, adult education courses, and training programs for kindergartens and schools.

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Subject:   Environmental education,  Children

Title: Tartu Student Nature Protection Circle

URL: http://www.ring.ee/

Description: Tartu Student Nature Protection Circle is a youth organisation founded in 1958, main activities include seminars, hiking, and other projects to raise environmental awareness of students in Tartu.

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Subject:   Hiking,  Student groups,  Environmental education