Environmental Advocacy
The Tula Foundation is not itself an environmental advocacy organization that gets directly involved in campaigns and legal fights. We do, however, support the rights of citizens to the informed, active and influential. For example, in the past we supported the Georgia Strait Alliance which is active in the region where the Tula Foundation is located.
We also support two other organizations who in turn provide resources and research that helps a great many advocacy organizations
The Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria provides research and advocacy on public interest environmental issues. The ELC has a multi-pronged structure, drawing on the expertise and involvement of students, professors, legal practitioners, and environmental activists. The Environmental Law Centre Society is staffed and run primarily by students with the support of volunteers from a variety of disciplines. The Tula Foundation has agreed to provide core funding of $214,500 per year to the Environmental Law Clinic for three years beginning in 2006, with the prospect of extension for an additional two years.
Mining Watch Canada is supported by environmental, social justice, aboriginal and labour organisations from across the country. It addresses the urgent need for a co-ordinated public interest response to the threats to public health, water and air quality, fish and wildlife habitat and community interests posed by irresponsible mineral policies and practices in Canada and around the world.
