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Friends of the Earth – France is an association for the protection of people and the environment. It is one of 76 national groups around the world which make up the Friends of the Earth network of environmental organizations. The group is listed as an association under the French law of 1901 (Loi de 1901) and authorised to act for the protection of the environment in France by order of the Environment Minister.〔(), Statuts des Amis de la Terre - France〕 Friends of the Earth – France is independent of any economic, political and religious influences. The association is a network of thirty local groups which are largely autonomous and work according to their local priorities. They are also involved in national and international campaigns owing to a shared commitment to social and environment justice. == History == The Friends of the Earth was founded by David Brower in San Francisco in 1969 after he stepped down as chairman of the Sierra Club. He wished to form an association to investigate causes of damage to the environment and then to combat them. He founded a new organisation, Friends of the Earth, and the association gathered support from many famous names. In France, Friends of the Earth registered as an association in Paris on the 11th of July 1970. The main founders were Edwin Matthews, an American lawyer living in Paris, and Alain Hervé, a poet and reporter whose initial idea was to see Friends of the Earth become a movement that aimed to improve public knowledge of nature. Members of the sponsorship committee included: Jean Dorst (naturalist, former director of the Museum of Natural History), Pierre Fournier (novelist under the name of Pierre Gascar), anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, biologist Konrad Lorenz, anthropologist Théodore Monod and biologist Jean Rostand. Friends of the Earth were among the first organisations to push for environmental candidates in political elections, such as René Dumont who ran for president in 1974 as the first ecologist candidate and who later became honorary president of the association. Afterwards, the group also attracted activists such as Pierre Radanne (ex-director of the ADEME) and Dominique Voynet (former Environment Planning Minister). In 1983, Friends of the Earth decided to focus on their associational activities. Many of the activists then left the association to participate in the creation of the Greens (Les Verts), such as Yves Cochet (founder of the local group in Rennes) who is the current vice-President of the Assemblée Nationale. Later on more activists left to form the Génération Écologie, such as Brice Lalonde (Paris group) who went on to become Environment Minister in 1988. The departure of several activists weakened the campaign resources, including the financial resources. Several teams, including those of Pierre Samuel and Guy Aznar, have since succeeded in maintaining and developing the national association for Friends of the Earth – France. The structure of the association has remained decentralised. Local groups have considerable autonomy, while keeping the desire to unite their strength in the national and global campaigns. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friends of the Earth – France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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