SOUTH AMERICA

ARGENTINA

• Bios Argentina

• Greenpeace Argentina

BRAZIL

• Ecoa: "Ecoa is a Brazilian nonprofit organization founded in 1989. Its main office is located in Campo Grande/MS. It acts in South America and its main region is La Plata Basin, where Pantanal and the Paraguay-Parana Wetland System are located. The organization's mission is to promote actions to preserve natural ecosystems and their populations through local, regional and national policies." 
  

• Greenpeace Brazil

CHILE

• Centro de Estudios Agrarios

• Fiscalía del Medio Ambiente (FIMA) - Non-profit private environmental law organization. Projects include forest conservation, toxic waste and environmental education. 

• Greenpeace Chile

COLOMBIA

• Friends of the Earth Columbia (Organización CENSAT Agua Viva. Bogotá)

• Center for Studies in Politics and Environmental Legislation of Colombia (Centro de Estudios en política y legislación ambiental de Colombia - CEPLAC)
  Calle 137 #11-42 Torre 5-1102. Bogotá Attn: Diana Calixto Medrano
  Tel: 571 - 6473720, Fax: 571 - 6473720
  Email: colombiaceplac@yahoo.es

• Corporation Colombia en Hechos (Corporación Colombia en Hechos)

• Corporation Ecofondo (Corporación Ecofondo. Bogotá)

• National Center of Cleaner Production and Environmental Technologies of Colombia (Centro Nacional de Producción Más Limpia y Tecnologías Ambientales de Colombia - CNPMLTA)

• Occupational Safety and Environmental Corporation (Corporación de Salud Ocupacional y Ambiental)

• OpEPA - Organization for Education and Environmental Protection (OpEPA - Organización para la Educación y Protección Ambiental): "OpEPA is a Colombian non-profit organization, whose mission is to reconnect children and youth with the Earth so that they act in an environmentally sustainable manner. Through this reconnection, children and youth may become agents in reducing environmental degradation and promoting a more sustainable generation of decision makers."
  

ECUADOR

• Ecuadorian Committee for the Defense of Nature and Environment (Comité Ecuatoriano de Defensa de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente - CEDENMA)

• IFA - Institute for Development of Work Environment and Production (IFA - Corporación para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Medio Ambiente Laboral)

• Virtual Library in Health, Equity and Development of Ecuador (Biblioteca Virtual en Salud, Equidad y Desarrollo del Ecuador)

PERU

• Fondo de las Américas Peru: "Promotes activities aimed at the preservation of natural and biological resources as well as the improvement of children survival and development in Peru, financing projects in benefit of the needed population, which are carried out by Civil Society non-profit Organizations and NGO's."

URUGUAY

• The Third World Institute: "The Third World Institute (ITeM) performs information, communication and education activities on an international level, concerning development and environment-related activities. It is a civil society organization, working for civil society, which encourages citizen involvement in global decision-making processes."

VENEZUELA

• Association for the Defense of the Environment and Nature (Asociación para la Defensa del Ambiente y de la Naturaleza (ADAN))
  Colinas de Sartenejas
  Tecnópolis USB. Edificio Bolívar
  Mezanina. Caracas, Venezuela
  Tel/Fax: 58-212-962.04.55
  Central: 58-212-906.42.65
  Email: adan@adan.org.ve

• Environmental Foundation in Venezuela (Fundación Ambiental de Venezuela) (AVE) Kathy Phelps
  Email: Manuel Diaz and Oscar Rodríguez

• Foundation ECOCICLA (Fundación ECOCICLA)
  C.C. Omnicentro
  Av. Universidad. Talleres del CCEAS
  Naguanagua, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo
  Tel: 0241-860.01.10
  Fax: 0241-867.12.01
  Email: ecocicla@cantv.net

• Vitalis: People, Communication, Environment (Vitalis: Gente, Communicacion y Ambiente)
  

http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/ngo_guide/ngo_links/latin.html

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/environment/

CENTRAL AMERICA

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BELIZE

• Oceana (Central American office): "Oceana, founded in 2001, is the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Our offices in North America, South America, Central America and Europe work together on a limited number of strategic, directed campaigns to achieve measurable outcomes that will help return our oceans to former levels of abundance."

COSTA RICA

EL SALVADOR

GUATEMALA

HONDURAS

NICARAGUA

PANAMA

THE CARIBBEAN

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PUERTO RICO

Communities United Against Pollution (CUCCo)

PO Box 363962, San Juan, 00962, Puerto Rico

Phone: (787) 788 0837
Fax: (787) 788 0837

Contact person: Rosa Hilda Ramos