Robin Wood is a German environmental advocacy group. The group was founded in 1982 by former members of

Greenpeace Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...

who desired a decentralized

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organization with greater autonomy to address specific local German issues. Robin Wood is based in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

and, in 2008, was composed of fifteen mostly autonomous regional groups within Germany. Initially concerned with the

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of German forests, particularly the

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, the group's activism efforts later expanded to include rainforest conservation,

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, reduction of

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and other related areas. Robin Wood stages "attention-grabbing" demonstrations and confrontational public protests to raise awareness. Although peaceful, the demonstrations are described as "often illegal." The group publishes the quarterly ''Robin Wood Magazin''.

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official website
Environmental organisations based in Germany Anti-nuclear organizations Organisations based in Bremen (city) Non-profit organisations based in Bremen (state) Deutscher Naturschutzring Organizations established in 1982 1982 establishments in Germany {{Germany-org-stub