Please check out the “News” section of our website to read an important announcement regarding our Annual General Meeting. 

 PEPAs Mission:
To promote public awareness and action to protect the environment, to ensure the wise use of natural resources for sustainable development.

The Portland Environment Protection Association (PEPA), was founded in June 1988 and is an association of community organizations, service clubs and civic organizations, bound together by our common interest to protect the natural environment of the parish of Portland specifically and the country of Jamaica in general.  Currently there are over sixty (60) organizational members and over one hundred (100) individual members of PEPA.  The Organization is listed in the International directory of Environmental Non-Government Organizations, ENGO’s.

PEPA came about through deep concern from citizens who were cognizant of the need to preserve the natural environment and associated resources.  The thought was, without swift action, rapid depletion of the Parish’s natural resources could preclude sustainable development.  The Organization is made up of representatives from forty-one (41) civic groups and associations within the parish.  Minimal fees are charged, and member groups are encouraged to spearhead and undertake environmental projects within their communities.  P.E.P.A. subsists on voluntary contributions of cash and kind.  It is a non-government, non-political, non-profit organization whose mission is clearly stated.

 

Last Updated:  February 26, 2008