Friends of the Earth

Welcome to the UK's largest grassroots environmental campaigning organisation

Inspire the next generation

Teach children to love the planet this year. Become Planet Protectors and have fun together as a family with plenty of planet-friendly activities.

Each pack includes bee-friendly wildflower seeds, an activity handbook, plastic-free stickers, a poster and more.

Get your Planet Protectors Pack today

Child playing with Planet Protectors pack

Insight: protect our peat

Peat is a natural ally against climate change and an important wildlife haven. It also improves water quality and helps reduce flood risk.

But peatland habitats in the UK face multiple threats.

Policy expert Paul de Zylva explains more about these threats and what the UK government should be doing to protect our precious peat.

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Protesters at Global Climate Strike, September 2019

Rethink the Policing Bill

The government is trying to rush through a new Policing Bill that threatens the democratic right to have our voices heard.

The bill increases sentences and fines for protestors and explicitly attacks the nomadic way of life of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

We know that peaceful protest has led to historic victories for climate, nature, and wider society. Demand a rethink from government and add your name to our joint open letter.

Say no to the Policing Bill

What's happening now

Children from a traveller community play in Hastings outside a caravan

Out of site: Britain's nomadic people

Published: 27 Apr 2021 | 4 minute read

The Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill has profound implications for environmental protest, but it also directly targets one of Britain’s most marginalised ethnic groups. Romany journalist Jake Bowers looks at the impact the bill will have on Britain’s nomadic people.

System change

Social justice

Legal and planning

What's happening in Mozambique?

Published: 09 Apr 2021 | 3 minute read

How is violence in a Mozambique province connected to environmental issues, and what can we do about it?

Climate

Energy

Fishing and the environment

Published: 09 Apr 2021 | 3 minute read

From Blue Planet to Seaspiracy, it's clear our oceans are in trouble. We explore the threats they face and what we can do about them.

Sustainable living

Food

Drax coal-fired power station emitting lots of smoke, Drax, Selby, North Yorkshire, UK

Are incinerators good for the environment?

Published: 30 Mar 2021 | 3 minute read

Across the UK, incinerators are being given the green light by councils. With low-income and minority communities disproportionately bearing the brunt of the pollution coming from these wood and waste-burning plants, Shaista Hussain looks at one city’s battle to protect local people from a new incinerator.

Climate

General

Local groups

Waste

Trees

A group of people listen at a talk on divestment in 2019

Divestment and climate

Published: 04 Jun 2018 | Last updated: 04 Feb 2021 | 3 minute read

UK councils invest billions of pounds of our pension money into companies drilling for new coal, gas and oil – making climate breakdown worse. Find out how you can help stop investment in climate-wrecking companies.

Climate

General