Friends of the Earth Finland (Maan ystävät)
 Finland
 about 600 members

Main issues: climate change, globalisation, traffic, campaigns against nuclear power, promoting green energy, a campaign to reform the Export Credit Agencies, and a campaign for food security and sustainable agriculture, GMO-issues, Asian forests and Finnish paper industry.

 The objective of the organisation is to promote:
-the creation of a democratic and ecologically sustainable society
-local economies
-social, gender, economic, political and intergenerational equality
-protection of Earth from further destruction
-preservation of the world's ecological, cultural and ethnic diversity
-human and animal rights
-co-operation of organisations and progressive groups
-work against military structures

The scope of activity varies from national to regional and from global campaigns to everyday issues of way of living. FoE Finland is politically and religiously independent. FoE Finland works closely with other progressive organisations, such as the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation and the  for Development Cooperation.
The activity is financed mainly by membership fees, private donations, and the government.

Website: www.maanystavat.fi
Contact person: Hannele Tiitto
Address: Tampereen Maan ystävät, Varastokatu 3, 33100 Tampere FinlandEmail: tampere(at)maanystavat.fi