Organizations

Country: Australia

History

The Environmental Defender's Office is a not-for-profit community legal centre specializing in public interest environmental law. The Environmental Defender's Office was founded in May 1985 with a single lawyer working from a spare table in the offices of solicitor Bruce Woolf. The company's objects were "to provide legal assistance and undertake research regarding the conservation of the built or natural environment and to promote community education programmes in matters relating to environmental law."

 

Focus of Activities

The Environmental Defender's Office Vision: To strive to create a society that values and protects the environment. The office has a schedule of casework, education and law reform.

The Environmental Defender's Office Mission: The EDO's mission is to promote the public interest and improve environmental outcomes through the informed use of the law.

Specific areas of interest include:

   1. Climate Change and Energy

   2. Biodiversity Conservation

   3. Natural Resource Management

   4. Planning and Development

   5. Environmental Justice

   6. Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance

   7. Miscellaneous

 

Notable Achievements

The Environmental Defender's Office has community workshops. These workshops are tailored to meet the needs of the workshop participants, but place emphasis on practical applications of the environmental law information provided. Subject cover a wide range of environmental issues including: planning and development systems for sustainability, threatened species law, pollution law, native vegetation law, coastal protection law, law governing water, legal access to information, rights of appeal and who to write effective proposals or submissions.

The Environmental Defender's Office has many publications for sale or free on the website. These include books and conference proceedings on a wide range of topics have to do with ecology, natural resources and many other aspect of environmental law.

 

Celebrity Supporters

Apparently the biggest celebrities are the attorneys who are recording the cases, working thse cases and teaching others how to do the same.

 

Governance & Financial

The Environmental Defender's Office is a not-for-profit community legal centre. All phone calls to the law line are free-of-charges. They receive about 1,200 a year.

 

Regions / countries which benefit

This specific office benefits New South Wales, but the phone line is open to anyone in the world.

 

How to donate

There are no directions or instructions on how to benefit this organization directly or indirectly.