General Facts

Priatelia Zeme Slovensko (Slovak

Slovak language

Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...

, translated to English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 as Friends of the Earth Slovakia) became a Friends of the Earth International member in 1997. Since then, they have been actively participating in activities coordinated by Friends of the Earth International and its regional association, Friends of the Earth Europe.

Friends of the Earth Slovakia consists of three organisations at present: Friends of the Earth-CEPA, Friends of the Earth - SPZ

Priatelia Zeme - SPZ

Priatelia Zeme - SPZ is a non-profit organisation protecting environment and nature in Slovakia and Europe since 1996...

 and WOLF Forest Protection Movement.

Objective

Ensure environmental, social and economical justice as well as protection

Environmental protection

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment, on individual, organizational or governmental level, for the benefit of the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and our technology the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently...

 of nature

Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

, living environment

Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....

and the quality of life.