Defending Environmental
and Social Impacts
We Are Environmental
Defenders Pillar
Environmental Defenders Network
Environmental defenders play a critical role in safeguarding ecosystems and communities from harmful industrial activities like mining, logging, and large-scale development. However, their work often puts them at serious risk. Globally, over 1,700 environmental defenders were killed between 2012 and 2022, with thousands more facing threats, criminalization, and violence for protecting nature and Indigenous rights.
Corporate Integrity Monitoring
Corporate Integrity Monitoring
EDEN promotes Corporate Integrity Monitoring to ensure companies act transparently, ethically, and comply with environmental laws. Rooted in accountability for justice and sustainability, EDEN emphasizes transparency, ethical practices, and responsibility. Actions include monitoring and reporting impacts, engaging communities and policymakers, and advocating through campaigns and legal pressure to hold corporations accountable.
Civic Engagement and Litigation
Civic Engagement and Litigation
EDEN’s initiative empowers communities to drive environmental change through legal tools and active participation. It promotes legal empowerment, civic involvement, and accountability to hold governments and polluters responsible. Key actions include trainings on environmental laws, advocacy to influence policy, and providing legal support for affected communities.
Monitoring, Reporting, and Research
Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) collects data and documents environmental crimes to drive meaningful action. We monitor air, water, and soil quality in vulnerable regions, publish evidence-based reports, and collaborate with journalists, NGOs, and international organizations. By exposing violations and amplifying community voices, EDEN works to hold polluters accountable and safeguard ecosystems for present and future generations.
Environmental Defenders Network
Environmental Defenders Network plays an important role in protecting lands and ecosystems from unsustainable industrial development, logging and extractive projects. But, the nature of their work can expose them to significant risks. Throughout the world, there are ever-increasing incidents of attacks against environmental defenders.
Our Approach
Combining community engagement, data-driven monitoring, advocacy, and legal action to promote accountability. Using education, partnerships, and sustainable practices ensures lasting protection of ecosystems and human health.
Communities choose us because
We are dedicated to safeguarding their environment, ensuring justice, and protecting natural resources for future generations.
Communities choose us for our unwavering commitment to protect their environment, uphold justice, and conserve natural resources. We stand with them to defend ecosystems, demand accountability, and build a sustainable future for generations to come.
Direct Impacts
Our Achievements
Participation in various Defender-focused networks, including the Defending Land and Environmental Defenders Coalition Local, national and regional advocacy for the protection of Defenders
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Conserving biodiversity
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Preventing pollution
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Ensuring environmental justice
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Award Winning As Environmental Defenders
Meet Our Team
Most Successful Expert on Environmental Human Rights Defender (EHRD).
Bustien Biber
Senior Attorney
Rebeka Lisan
Senior Attorney
Bustien Biber
Senior Attorney
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Our Inspiration
From the creation story, the Garden of Eden symbolizes the ideals of conservation and the observance of humanity’s fundamental rights. Building on this foundation, the Environmental Defenders Network (EDEN) is established to uphold these inalienable rights. As a platform committed to conserving the environment and protecting human rights, EDEN derives its mandate from local, national, regional, and global norms, ethics, treaties, conventions, policies, and laws that safeguard both people and nature.
EDEN draws strength and inspiration from past and present heroes of environmental and human rights struggles, whose sacrifices must never be in vain. This enduring legacy shapes the core philosophy and guiding pillars of the Network. The ongoing degradation of the environment and the relentless battles of defenders against pollution highlight the urgent need to protect ecosystems, communities, and those who stand for them. It is on this foundation that EDEN’s mission and commitment firmly rest.
Inspirational Benefits
- EDEN strengthens community voices by defending fundamental human and environmental rights through global and local legal frameworks.
2. EDEN safeguards ecosystems by promoting sustainable practices, fighting pollution, and ensuring nature is preserved for future generations.