Cape Town Ecology Group

Cape Town Ecology Group

The Group is a Cape Town South African ecology of radical environmental group founded in 1987 as a "child of Koeberg Alert," and active until the early 1990s. He went to a more politically oriented green ideology, as opposed to conservation groups based in the apartheid era. According to founder Mike Cope: "We felt the need to address environmental issues at a broader level, and recognized the link between politics and ecology Ecology is definitely a political issue, because environmental issues are on the point where we live ..

Co-organized the first conference in South Africa on the environment [2], in collaboration with the Western Cape in the World Conference on Religion and Peace and the call to Islam in 1991. The National Conference on Environment and Development was held at the University of Western Cape and about 231 representatives from a wide range of organizations discussed the links between environmental degradation and political situation in South Africa. The three-day conference aimed at "environmental policy, ecology politicized" and was considered a breakthrough for its time.