The Centre for Environmental Rights was established by eight founding members that are also non-profit organisations. This group has since grown to eleven. The current members are, in alphabetical order:
- Biowatch Trust
- BirdLife South Africa
- Conservation South Africa
- Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT)
- Environmental Monitoring Group Trust (EMG)
- Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE)
- groundWork
- Table Mountain Fund
- Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA)
- Wilderness Foundation
- WWF South Africa