Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

The Earth Organization

The Earth Organization

Organization is an international non-governmental organization, which calls itself "independent, grass-roots international non-profit organization, conservation and environment, with new solutions, committed to creative, responsible rehabilitation of the planet Earth, the vegetable kingdom and animal. "  The organization is registered as an independent non-profit in South Africa, the subsidiaries in the United States, France, Canada, Hungary and Slovakia.
The organization was founded in 2003 in South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony  and is best known for its activities related to the welfare of elephants.

Koeberg Alert


Koeberg Alert, founded in 1983 and started as a local campaign against the nuclear program of South Africa, especially the construction of Koeberg nuclear power plant. Koeberg Alert is probably the first country green activist movement, apart from Nan Rice, Dolphin Action and Protection Group. For years, combined with the broader democratic movement and anti-apartheid. He is currently organizing various anti-nuclear campaigns, and participate in the wider against war and peace movements.

It was renovated in February 2010 when it took place before the National Nuclear HMS Sceptre's visit nuclear submarine. In March 2010, the process of environmental impact assessment for the construction of nuclear-1 was in its final phase with the publication of the preliminary environmental impact report and alert when writing Koeberg to hold public meetings on the subject culture, and aims to prepare more detailed presentations.

ECOPEACE Party

ECOPEACE Party

ECOPEACE party, eThekwini ECOPEACE already, and before that Ecoparty eThekwini, a party is registered at the national level environment in South Africa, which was founded in 1995. eThekwini is the isiZulu name for Durban. IsiZulu ECOPEACE Buhlakuleni uButhi-Yitshaleni iMithi motto means "poison root, grow trees (medicine)".  'became the 1996 municipal elections, but failed to win a seat. In 2000 he won a seat in the eThekwini Municipal Council.  This is the only green place in South Africa. ECOPEACE has not been re-elected in 2006, municipal elections.  However, its sister organization Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM) has on the Johannesburg City Council elections. OKM is Mr. Green Coalition (GSC).

Although EcoPeace is an ecologist in the broadest sense to look for aspects of the interruption sustaianability natural, built environment, social, economic, political and global issues, etc, and the production of renewable energy are major concerns.

Endangered Wildlife Trust

Endangered Wildlife Trust

The Endangered Wildlife Trust is a South African organization on the environment for the conservation of endangered species and ecosystems in southern Africa.
Founded in 1973, the work of conservation programs and action research EWT, supports the operation of biodiversity and ecosystems and promotes sustainable use of natural resources. EWT specialized working groups through which the Foundation's objectives can be achieved. These working groups are operating units of the organization and are essentially self by mobilizing the talent and enthusiasm of a network of experts and stakeholders in a conservation priority. Existing working groups have developed very credible path to conservation outcomes.

Earthlife Africa


Earthlife Africa is a South African organization on the environment and anti-nuclear-founded in August 1988 in Johannesburg. Initially designed as a South African version of Greenpeace, the group began playing a radical, anti-apartheid activist role. ALS is probably now more of a lobby or pressure group Reform. Considered by some as one of the most important voices in the emerging environmental justice movement Earthlife Africa has been criticized for being too radical, and others to "work with the traditional conservation movement" in the search for environmental control.

Dolphin Action and Protection Group


Dolphin Action and Protection Group is an NGO in South Africa fighting for the protection and conservation of dolphins and whales (cetaceans). The group was founded in 1977. DAPG has since expanded its role and activities and has conducted many national education and fundraising. DAPG thousands of educational brochures are distributed each year in schools and libraries and also for fishing and merchant vessels to prevent the dumping of plastics at sea .

DAPG also fought against the deep-sea fishing, pelagic drift-net, which kills whales caught in nets, and managed to eliminate this method of fishing in the southern Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. DAPG has been working with Marine and Coastal Management in the formation of a South African Whale disentanglement Unit.

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.