Earth Liberation Front

The Earth Liberation Front ELF, also invited as "Elves" or "The Elves", is a collective hit for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage as well as guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation as well as destruction of the environment".

The ELF was founded in Brighton in the United Kingdom in 1992, and spread to the rest of Europe by 1994. it is now an international agency with actions submitted in 17 countries and is widely regarded as descending from Animal Liberation Front because of the relationship and cooperation between the two movements. Using the same leaderless resistance model, as well as similar guidelines to the ALF, sympathizers say that it is an eco-defense office committed to taking the profit motive out of environmental waste by causing economic damage to businesses through the use of property damage.

The ELF was classified as the top "domestic terror" threat in the United States by the .

Police response, and convictions

In 1994, Dutch authorities and police presents claims that British ELF activists were traveling abroad to cause sabotage, which was disputed by ELF. Later that year the number one Earth Liberation Prisoner ELP was caught and later charged. so-called as Paul S., he was arrested and accused of implementation an 18-month campaign of vandalism in the Netherlands against road construction sites. The Dutch government attempted to declare him insane, because of his inability to provide a political reason for his actions, other than his care for the environment. This was unsuccessful and the prisoner was sentenced to three years for damaging property.

Due to the increased popularity of the environmental movement, as alive as the animal liberation movement andestimates that five ALF actions occurred per day, police carried out a series of raids against animal rights and environmental activists. In total, there were 55 homes raided against suspected ALF and ELF activists, including an individual in Italy. The police had non managed to charge anyone with any illegal activities, until on January 16, 1996, when six men were charged for a five-year ALF/ELF campaign. They were sentenced a year later used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters to three years for conspiracy to incite violence in the name of animal and earth liberation.