• To provide an information and advisory service on local environmental and animal welfare issues for the public and the media.
• To host talks and debates, encourage activities beneficial to environmental protection and animal welfare and produce educational literature and audio-visual displays.
• To build up strong and positive links at local business, public, media and community level and to liaise with other environmental and animal welfare groups.

	Main Address		Alternative Contact
	Susan Ferguson Honorary Secretary, ECO Burness Cottage Burness Road Firth Orkney KW17 2ET		Clive Strutt Chairman, ECO Manse Bay South Ronaldsay Orkney
	+44-(0)1856-761230 (24 hours)		+44-(0)1856-831541
	+44-(0)1856-761230
	susan@burness.force9.net
WWW	www.eco-orkney.org.uk

If you hear about or see any pollution (air, water or soil) of Orkney’s environment, fly-tipping or any other environmental problems, then please contact us. *All calls will be treated in confidence.*

We look forward to hearing from you! Your membership and donations are most welcome and will allow us to continue our work in protecting Orkney’s special environment. Please print out and send the following form and membership / donation to Inga Antonio, 3 Broadsands Road, Kirkwall, Orkney KW15 1BP (Tel. +44-(0)1856-871307).

Name:...................................................................................................   Address:................................................................................................   ............................................................................................................   ............................................................................................................   Telephone:.......................................................................................   I / We wish to join E.C.O. (PLEASE TICK AS APPROPRIATE)   UNWAGED ........................................................... £5 INDIVIDUAL .......................................................... £10 FAMILY .................................................................. £15 ORGANISATION / COMPANY ............................ £25   I wish to make a donation of ...................................... to ECO.

Photographs on this site attributed to “GM” have been scanned from the work of Gunnie Moberg, Don, Outertown, Orkney KW16 3JP. Telephone / Fax: +44-(0)1856-850891. ECO’s warmest thanks are due to Gunnie for permission to use items from her extensive library of colour and monochrome slides and photographs of Orkney, Shetland and the Faroe Islands. It took millions of years for the world’s human population to rise from our obscure origins to about 2 billion in the 1930’s. By the 1990’s, this figure has risen to nearly 6 billion. There is therefore a huge quantitative increase in the demands that our species makes on the planet - demands both in respect of use of resources and demands in relation to the accumulation of waste products.

Moreover, the kinds of waste products we generate are now, in many cases, far removed from the products that the absorbent capacity of the biosphere has ordinarily had to deal with over long periods of time. Our demands on the planet are therefore very different, qualitatively, from what they have been until very recently in human history.

There is therefore, prima facie, good reason to wonder whether we, the human race, may be placing excessive strain on the biosphere’s natural capacity to adjust to changes imposed upon it. This is the basis of ECOLOGICAL CONCERN generally. Our islands have long been relatively cut off from the main centres of large scale economic activities ...... industry, agriculture and transport. The consequence is that, although we have been able to acquire some advantages from becoming more ‘modern’, our environment is relatively undamaged by many of the grosser features of the modern world. ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN ORKNEY has the task of keeping Orkney environmentally clean and non-destructive without inhibiting genuinely useful progress. We are a voluntary pressure group of concerned individuals; we have a record of activity - and fruitful impact upon the authorities.

If this work is to prosper, we need to have increased public exposure and increased financial support from the public. The aim of this website is to raise our public profile to a new height - not least among the many expatriate Orkney people world wide who, very naturally, are deeply interested in the future of the place in which they, or their forebears, originated.

ECO is a member of the following bodies:

• Local Biodiversity Action Group
• Orkney Countryside Committee
• WHAM - Waste Highland Action on Minimalisation