Abstract Environmental politics is associated with the early ideologies of preservation and conservation of nature. The preservation of natural resources especially wilderness was the most significant in those days. Conservationism advocated for the restrained exploitation of resources for future use and development. This is the basis of ecologism. Thus this paper discusses the origin of environmental ideologies, the tension behind them, and the dilemmas in which the environmental groups are faced when advocating for environmental challenges. Environmental Politics Environment and politics are two different aspects by interrelated. His environment encompasses the nature in which people live and politics describe the policies of ruling elites. Political ideologies and environmental ideologies differ and are also similar in many aspects. When discussing environmental politics we look at the fundamental ideas that generated the current environmental behavior among societies(Carter 2007). The ideologies of environmental politics originated from early theories about such as the biblical theory and utilitarianism theory. Under utilitarian theory emphasizes that the actions should b judged depending on their effects such as pleasures and pain. The utilitarian concept defined that non-humans should receive the same treatment as humans. This is because they have the capacity to suffer and that they need to have a full life expectancy. Thus without sentience, there will be no interest in extending to them (Carter 2007). This has brought about the moral extensions advocated by ideologies based on consciousness, sentience, and rationality. Contemporary environmental activities are based on early thinking in the environmental issues advocated by preservationists and conservationists. Hence the rise of animal liberalism championed the rights of the animal and supported vegetarianism. Preservationist and conservationist movements of the early 19th and 20th centuries advocated for resource conservation and preservation. Resource conservation was mainly based on land management such as that wasteful exploitation should be avoided and sustainable use of resources by the entire society unlike to be used by few individuals. Similarly, the preservationist ideology argued that there should be reverence to nature such as wilderness and that nature should be preserved as it is. The approaches advanced by conservationists and preservationists were anthropocentric of which preservationists viewed humans as having no value and that resources should be preserved without any disturbance but the conservationist argues that resources should conserve for future use and can be developed. Due to human population increase, several challenges have been posed by resource allocation. Policymakers have had to make necessary step s allocate resources to ever-increasing humans. The natural resources are limited and the conservation and preservation ideologies are challenged. This should be done to avoid the dangerous effect that may render life difficult. Human activity is characterized by a change in economic levels and social dimensions which are an effect of political ideology and purs