Review: Ultra Ecologicus: Les Nouveaux Croisés de l'Écologie [Ecology’s New Crusaders]

Others have created their own tag name: for example, the Zadists are groups of French militants that aim to protect, defend, or occupy a terrain, forest, or natural sector that is targeted by promotors or industries for industrial development; the acronym ZAD stands for "zone a défendre" (ZAD) or "Zone to Defend". In France, some of these activists have been elected as MPs or even as mayors in several small or medium-sized cities; the most popular political party is named "Europe Écologie les Verts" (thus the green colour on this book's cover), using the ÉÉLV acronym. Since a few decades, they do represent a real, officialised, and even institutionalised political force in France. [...]these new crusaders of ecology are not always protesting in the streets: they are in some cases elected and working in city halls in France, and even at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels.