Ecotage

Ecotage is a portmanteau of the "eco-" prefix and "sabotage". Ecotage is often used as a descriptive term for the direct actions of environmental groups such as Earth First! and similar groups throughout the Western world. The term is only applied for actions of sabotage committed within the context of the environmentalist movement. Often, because of a lack of clear definitions between the three and because of the subjective nature of those ineffective definitions, ecotage is often seen as indistinguishable from acts of civil disobedience or even eco-terrorism.