• Nature
• Energy
• Climate
• Transportation
• Pollution
• Sustainable living

Founded in 1914, Norges Naturvernforbund/Naturvernforbundet (Friends of the Earth Norway) is Norway’s oldest environmental and nature protection organisation. Naturvernforbundet is membership based and democratic, and consists of over 41,000 members in more than 100 local groups across the country, working to solve environmental issues both locally and globally.

Our main goal is to protect the nature and environment so that human activity does not exceed the tolerance limits of our planet. We are engaged in a wide range of issues in environmental and nature conservation, but work specifically with the areas conservation, climate change, energy and transportation.

Although we have a national agenda, many environmental questions have proven to have an international or even global character. Issues concerning development, resource allocations and international cooperation are very much part of our everyday activities.

Our organisation is governed by a national executive committee and a central committee, both headed by the organization’s elected leader Truls Gulowsen. Secretary General Gro Holstad leads the sectetariat in Oslo, as well as several employees around the country.

Naturvernforbundet issues the publication “Natur & Miljø” («Nature and the environment»), which has a high focus on global climate change, energy and development issues.

Our secretariat is located in the centre of Oslo (See map here). We also have employees scattered across Norway in regional and local offices. “Nature and Youth” is our youth organisation, while our organisation for children is called «the Eco-agents”.

A member of Friends of the Earth International, Naturvernforbundet is Norway’s representative in the world’s largest grassroots environmental network with more than 2 millon members worldwide. Together we campaign today’s most urgent environmental and social issues.