Environmental Justice Foundation

Environmental Justice Foundation
AbbreviationEJF
Founded2001 by Steve Trent (CEO and Founder) & Juliette Williams (Founder and Director)
FocusEnvironmentalism and Human rights
Area served
Global
MethodInvestigations, Campaigning, Grassroots training action
Revenue
£2,613,414 (2019)
Websiteejfoundation.org

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) founded in 2000 by Steve Trent and Juliette Williams that works to secure a world where natural habitats and environments can sustain, and be sustained by, the communities that depend upon them for their basic needs and livelihoods. It promotes global environmental justice, which it defines as “equal access to a secure and healthy environment for all, in a world where wildlife can thrive alongside humanity.”[1]

EJF exposes environmental crime and destruction and the connected threats to human rights, telling the stories of those at the frontlines, and takes local fights to the very heart of governments and business across the world to secure lasting, global change.

The organisation conducts hard-hitting investigations which take place on land and at sea – providing irrefutable evidence, detailed data sets, and first-hand witness testimony – these are combined with strategic advocacy which reaches the highest levels in government to secure durable, systemic change.[2]

Much of EJF's work involves training and equipping communities affected by environmental injustices to investigate, record and expose abuses and then campaign effectively for an equitable resolution to the issues.[3]

Emphasis is placed on the power of film,[2] both to record irrefutable evidence of environmental injustice and to create strong campaigning messages which can change the world.

EJF's work covers five main campaigning areas: ocean,[4] climate,[5] forests,[6] wildlife and biodiversity,[7] and cotton.[8]

  1. ^ "What is environmental justice?". Environmental Justice Foundation. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  2. ^ a b "Who we are". Environmental Justice Foundation. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  3. ^ "Activist Training". Environmental Justice Foundation. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  4. ^ "Ocean". Environmental Justice Foundation. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  5. ^ "Climate". Environmental Justice Foundation. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  6. ^ "Forests". Environmental Justice Foundation. Archived from the original on 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  7. ^ "Wildlife and Biodiversity". Environmental Justice Foundation. Archived from the original on 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2022-02-02.
  8. ^ "Cotton". Environmental Justice Foundation. Archived from the original on 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2022-02-02.