Bellona Foundation

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The Bellona Foundation

Company type	NGO
Industry	Environmentalism
Founded	June 16, 1986
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Area served	Norway, EU, Russia and U.S.
Key people	Frederic Hauge (co-founder)
Revenue	764,898 Euro (2020)
Number of employees	About 70 (2010)
Website	www.bellona.org, www.bellona.no, www.bellona.ru

The Bellona Foundation is an international environmental NGO headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with branches in Europe and North America. Founded in 1986 by Frederic Hauge and Rune Haaland as a direct action protest group to curb Norway's oil and gas industry pollution, it grew to be multi-disciplinary and multinational in scope and maintains offices in Oslo, Brussels, Berlin and Vilnius. In 2022, Bellona ended activities in Russia and relocated experts to the Vilnius, Lithuania office to assist Ukraine with environmental challenges resulting from the Russian invasion.^[1] In 2023, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office recognized Bellona as an "undesirable organization".^[2]

Bellona works with ecologists, engineers, economists, attorneys, journalists, specialists in the natural and social sciences, to accomplish its objectives.