The Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science (IFEES) is an
environmental organization
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements
that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces.
In this sense the environment ...
founded in 1993 by
Fazlun Khalid in
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...
,
England
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. The IFEES have produced a range of educational materials aimed at raising Muslims' awareness of environmental issues, and is involved in numerous conservation and education projects throughout the Muslim world, including "green audits" for mosques and a "Sustainable Living Islam summer camp. IFEES publishes a newsletter, ''EcoIslam'', and has produced a film titled ''Clean Medina''. The ''Muslim Green Guide to Reducing Climate Change'' was published by IFEES in 2008.
In 2005 IFEES worked with
CARE International
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded i ...
to bring a halt to dynamite fishing in
Zanzibar
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, and are currently conducting a tree-planting campaign in
Indonesia
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called "Green Indonesia".
See also
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Religion and environmentalism
Religion and environmentalism is an emerging interdisciplinary subfield in the academic disciplines of religious studies, religious ethics, the sociology of religion, and theology amongst others, with environmentalism and ecological principles as ...
References
External links
IFEES Website
Charities based in the West Midlands (county)
Environmental organisations based in England
Islam and environmentalism
Islamic charities based in the United Kingdom
Islamic organizations established in 1994
Environmental organizations established in 1994
1994 establishments in England
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