The Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science (IFEES) is an

environmental organization An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environme ...

founded in 1993 by Fazlun Khalid in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

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. The IFEES have produced a range of educational materials aimed at raising Muslims' awareness of environmental issues, and is involved in numerous conservation and education projects throughout the Muslim world, including "green audits" for mosques and a "Sustainable Living Islam summer camp. IFEES publishes a newsletter, ''EcoIslam'', and has produced a film titled ''Clean Medina''. The ''Muslim Green Guide to Reducing Climate Change'' was published by IFEES in 2008. In 2005 IFEES worked with

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to bring a halt to dynamite fishing in

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, and are currently conducting a tree-planting campaign in

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called "Green Indonesia".

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IFEES Website

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