"Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations:
Warriors of the Rainbow?"

By
Fauziah Ismail
Press Fellow
(Michaelmas Term 1998)
Wolfson College
University of Cambridge
Supervisor: Dr Jack E Shepherd

"There would come a time when the Earth would be ravaged of its resources, the streams poisoned, the deer drop dead in their tracks. Just before it was too late, the Indian would regain his spirit and teach the White Man reverence for the Earth, and together, they would become the Warriors of the Rainbow."
-- an extract from a book of Indian Myths and Legends picked up by Vancouver Sun journalist Robert Hunter during the first Greenpeace expedition to Amchitka in 1971.

Background
NGOs:Definition
National and International Recognition
Environmental NGOs
Environmental NGOs-Governments' Relations
Conclusion

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