Protecting Our People
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May 01, 2026From ratification to reality: civil society calls for protections for Indonesia’s fishersRead -
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Apr 30, 2026EU FISHERIES POLICY FIT FOR PURPOSE, BUT URGENTLY NEEDS FULL IMPLEMENTATION, SAYS EJFRead -
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Apr 29, 2026La France impulse une avancée majeure pour la transparence des pêches au G7Read -
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Apr 15, 2026Press statement: new marine protected area "is a defining moment for Ghana"Read
We believe that environmental security is not just about quality of life, it is a basic human right
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.
Driven by our core values of integrity, innovation and impact, EJF uses investigations and film to uncover environmental and human rights abuses. We work for environmental justice, to protect the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it. Environmental security is a basic human right, and we go to the ends of the earth to defend people and planet.
Our Vision
Our Vision
Our vision is for a world where natural habitats and environments can sustain and be sustained by the communities that depend on them.
Campaigns
Ocean
Protecting marine ecosystems and livelihoods
Our global ocean is the ‘blue beating heart’ of our planet, driving the systems that make our world habitable. It is home to between 500,000 and 10 million species, many of which have yet to be identified. EJF campaigns to protect the global ocean, its biodiversity and the livelihoods that depend upon it.
Unregulated: The South Atlantic Squid Fishing Boom
Hundreds of distant-water vessels are plundering squid populations in the Southwest Atlantic, driving a keystone species towards collapse and exposing workers to horrific abuses, according to a new investigation and film from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).
This report exposes the alarming environmental and human rights toll of China’s distant-water squid fleet in the Southeast Pacific. It draws on investigations that reveal widespread shark finning, marine mammal capture, abusive labour practices, and the unloading of deceased crew into Latin American ports. The report also highlights major governance failures: despite early warnings of a decline in the squid population, and calls for urgent reforms to end IUU fishing and forced labour in the world’s most important squid fishery.
Watch the webinar where we discuss the findings of this report with experts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Climate
Driving global action to avoid climate breakdown
EJF’s climate campaign aims to secure international action to decarbonise economies around the world, protect the natural environments which are a vital store of carbon, and ensure climate justice for all. We campaign for the protection for the world’s growing population of climate refugees, forced to flee their homes in the wake of the climate crisis.
Manifesto to Combat Global Heating
The climate manifesto brings to bear EJF’s long experience of working with people on the frontlines of the climate crisis and combines it with existing scientific research to create a clear roadmap of measures that can be taken to achieve zero-carbon by 2035.
Forests and Wetlands
Ending the loss of our critical ‘life support systems’
EJF is campaigning to stop this wanton destruction of wetlands and forests, securing protection for the Pantanal in Brazil and Canada’s ancient forests. Our investigations and support to local partners, journalists and Indigenous communities expose those responsible and trigger vital policy changes and protections.
Nature's unsung heroes: why wetlands matter
Wetlands play a disproportionately large role in supporting biodiversity, maintaining human health and stabilising our global climate. Despite this, the rate of wetland loss far outpaces other biomes, making them one of our planet's most threatened ecosystems.
Freshwater wetlands store vast amounts of carbon, regulate water flows, and sustain biodiversity and livelihoods worldwide. Yet they are being drained, burned, and destroyed at alarming rates, setting off a ‘carbon bomb’ and fatally undermining global climate goals.
Environmental Defenders
Supporting environmental defenders
EJF supports environmental defenders to investigate, expose and redress environmental abuses and associated human rights violations. We collaborate with the journalists, activists, small-scale fishers and Indigenous leaders who raise the alarm on threats to the natural world and their rights.
Plastics
Building a plastic-free future
Plastic is everywhere. It’s in the deepest ocean trench, on the summit of Everest, and in our bodies. This is not an accident. The fossil fuel companies driving the climate crisis are doubling down on plastic production, designing a world in which reducing your exposure is almost impossible, with devastating impacts for your health. EJF is working to change that. We are tackling the full life cycle of plastics and calling for our collective Right to Reduce.
Unmasked: Tracing Plastic’s Harm from Production to Disposal
This film reveals how efforts to tackle plastic pollution by focusing on waste management are entirely failing in Thailand.
Plastic pollution has reached a critical level in Thailand and Southeast Asia. This report identifies how and why efforts to tackle it have proved unsuccessful, particularly focusing on the lack of measures to address the high rate of plastic production, the root cause of the contemporary plastics crisis.
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