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Robin Wood
Founded12 November 1982
TypeNon-governmental organization
FocusEnvironmentalism
Location
Area served Germany
MethodDirect action
Members1400
Key peopleFlorian Kubitz (CEO)
Revenue€900,000 (2004)
Websitewww.robinwood.de

Robin Wood is a German environmental advocacy group. The group was founded in 1982 by former members of Greenpeace who desired a decentralized grassroots organization with greater autonomy to address specific local German issues. Robin Wood is based in Bremen and, in 2008, was composed of fifteen mostly autonomous regional groups within Germany.

Initially concerned with the conservation of German forests, particularly the Black Forest, the group's activism efforts later expanded to include rainforest conservation, paper recycling, reduction of acid rain 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.

References

  1. Carter, Neil (May 2007). The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-521-86802-0.
  2. Gigler, Sonia (11 March 2008). "Robin Wood: Germany's Bare Branch Avenger". Cafe Babel. Retrieved 2011-04-27.
  3. Barry, John; Frankland, E. Gene (December 2001). International encyclopedia of environmental politics. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 0-415-20285-X.
  4. ^ Markham, William T. (August 2008). Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Berghahn Books. pp. 203–204. ISBN 978-1-84545-447-0.

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