Title:
Transkei, Eastern Cape SA -- Education for Self Sustainability
Proposed by: Celeste Booth
Seconded by: D J Shanker

WHEREAS,

In Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa:

• Soil erosion has taken over the land resulting in deep gashes in the earth;
• People are poor and live in unfortunate conditions with little or no income;
• The land, cities and towns are practically ankle deep in litter and rubble;
• The residents have little knowledge and encouragement to establish better living conditions;

THEREFORE, the 7^th World Wilderness Congress:

Recognizes that lack of environmental self-sufficiency inevitably leads to degradation of wilderness and wildland areas;

Supports the critical importance of poor rural and local peoples to be masters of their own beneficial environmental conditions; and hereby
 

RESOLVES, that

Local and regional government, with assistance from national agencies and international funders where possible, introduce to and educate the communities of the Transkei in, as many natural resource techniques as possible that restore ecological balance and self-sufficiency, including but not limited to permanent agriculture (perma-culture) systems.

Proposed by:

Celeste Booth
30 Lundie Street,
Sydenham
Port Elizabeth, 6001 RSA
Tel: (041) 4846039
Cell: 083664595

Seconded by:

D J Shanker
Kopkrap Farm
Kirkwood 6001 RSA
Tel 0422 300 422
Cell 072 308 9576