Individuals are commonly known to work in affinity groups, known as cells, and are usually self-funded. The Earth Liberation Front has no formal leadership, hierarchy, membership or official spokesperson and is entirely decentralized instead consisting of individuals or cells who choose the term as a banner to use. Д®LF ' monkeywrenching' is carried out against facilities and companies involved in logging, genetic engineering, GMO crops, deforestation, sport utility vehicle (SUV) sales, urban sprawl, rural cluster and developments with larger homes, energy production and distribution, and a wide variety of other activities, all charged by the ELF with exploiting the Earth, its environment and inhabitants. The group was further highlighted in the 2011 Academy AwardвЂ“nominated documentary If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. Once you set one of these fires they can go way out of control.' The name came to public prominence when they were featured on the television show 60 Minutes in 2005. Despite the lack of deaths from ELF attacks, the FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism has said, 'I think we're lucky. The ELF was classified as the top 'domestic terror' threat in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in February 2001, and its members classified as eco-terrorists. Using the same leaderless resistance model, as well as similar guidelines to the ALF, sympathizers say that it is an eco-defense group dedicated to taking the profit motive out of environmental destruction by causing economic damage to businesses through the use of property damage. It is now an international organization with actions reported in 17 countries and is widely regarded as descending from Animal Liberation Front because of the relationship and cooperation between the two movements. The ELF was founded in Brighton in the United Kingdom in 1992, and spread to the rest of Europe by 1994. The Earth Liberation Front ( ELF), also known as ' Elves' or ' The Elves', is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use 'economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment'.

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