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.