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SUIDPUNT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE (SEA)
box 56 agulhas 7287 south africa
tel +27 (28) 435 6565 g fax +27 (86) 674 9522 g email cowperlewis@isat.co.za
What is SEA?
The Suidpunt
Environmental Alliance (SEA) has been operating at the southern tip of Africa for the past eleven years. Our Alliance consists of a
small group of committed citizens concerned mainly with the health of the
local and global natural environment.
SEA, as the only environmental activist group in the
Suidpunt, is relatively small in size; however, in
spite of this, we are one of the few societies that ever get anything
done. This is because we minimise valuable time spent on committee
meetings. We simply don’t
have time for interminable discussions, and the tedious admin work related to
agendas, minutes and reports. We apply ourselves to environmental
issues as they crop up – the only prerequisite being that the majority
of our core members agree with what has to be done – how, when, where,
and by whom.
We are non-profitmaking and we do not ask our
supporters for any fees or financial contributions. Neither do we receive any finance from any
other source whatsoever. Our love for
and commitment to the natural environment makes it a privilege for us to
finance this work entirely from our own pockets.
Complete records, available to public scrutiny at any
time, are kept of all our activities, and we have
collected, to date, signed commitments from over one hundred and fifty (150)
like-minded people. These signatories
have pledged unconditional support
for our Alliance.
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MISSION
STATEMENT
We, the members of the Suidpunt
Environmental Alliance, endeavour to:
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Curb
unsustainable development especially in wild and fragile environments
v
Promote sound
environmental values
v
Serve as
environmental watchdogs
v
Influence
policy and decision-making
v
Endeavour to
conserve and protect the fauna and flora of the Southern Cape Overberg
v
Activate to
repair, maintain and uplift the environmental health of the planet in local,
regional, national and global matters.
Our past
work includes:
v
Being instrumental in the rejection of certain
unsustainable developments in ecologically sensitive areas in the Southern
Overberg (e.g. De Mond Estuary and Bird Sanctuary, Mount Pleasant, St Mungo
Bay, Vywerbaai, etc.)
v
Being instrumental in the reduction of the previously
unsustainable rate of development (+ 30% p.a. in the mid-nineties)
– in the Cape Agulhas area – to a
more sustainable level
v
Being instrumental in the motorised vehicle ban on beaches
v
Being instrumental in the non-renewal and cessation of
permits to mine pebbles below and above the high-water mark along the
Southern Overberg coast
v
Being instrumental in the preservation of coastal hummock
dunes near Struisbaai
v
Being instrumental in setting up a local Municipal
recycling programme
v
Persuading the Cape
Agulhas Municipality
to stop treating our tidal pools with toxic chemicals (chlorine,
copper-sulphate and lime)
v
Persuading the Cape
Agulhas Municipality
to stop destroying fynbos and spring flowers on the Agulhas waterfront
v
Receiving permission from the National Minister of
Transport for the erection of tortoise-warning signs on national and regional
roads
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Receiving permission from the Cape Agulhas Municipality
for the beautification with indigenous plants and natural materials of the
L’Agulhas waterfront
For further details contact:
Meg Cowper-Lewis
Director and Founder
Suidpunt Environmental Alliance
Box 56
AGULHAS
7287 South Africa
Ph: +27 (0)28 435 6565; Fx: +27 (0)86 674 9522; Sms/text: +27 (0)73
026 8800
gaia1@isat.co.za; www.southermost.co.za
or
Yvonne (Mosie) Hope
Director
Suidpunt Environmental Alliance
Box 108
AGULHAS
7287 South Africa
Ph/Fx: +27 (0)28 435 7888; Mobile: +27 (0)82 296 0144
mosie@isat.co.za
September 2010
Should you be wish to register as a
supporter of our Alliance, please complete the form below and post, fax or
email to the above.
Supporter Application
I/We, the undersigned, support the
Suidpunt Environmental Alliance unconditionally in all their environmental
work as it pertains to their Mission Statement above:
Full name: ….....................................................................…………………………………………..………………….
Address: …...................................................................……………………..………………………………………….
Phones: Home:
………...................................……. Work: …….....…….........................…………
Email:
……………….………….......................…….…. Fax: ……….......................................…......
Signature:
…………....................……........……… Date: ….…………......................................…...
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