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This article is a case study of the most significant Czechenvironmental direct-action over the past few years—theblockade that was to stop the logging taking place in awilderness zone of the Sumava National Park in the summer 2011.The empirical findings draw on two surveys that were carriedout among the blockade participants more than a year apart. Thearticle focuses on the participants’ motivation. The types ofmotivation are analyzed by the three types of motivationcategories as they are formulated in normative ethics:teleological, deontological, and virtue ethics. Results areinterpreted within the context of normative ethics and oftheories dealing with the dynamics of contention. Thetheoretical premise is that different types of motivation forenvironmentally-oriented behavior contain different levels ofexpectations, and through these expectations they carrydifferent levels of the potential for disappointment andresignation. Despite the fact that the blockade did not stopthe logging—and so in fact could be seen as a failure—therespondents did not express disappointment. On the contrary,their attitudes showed a strikingly unified resistance anddetermination to participate in the blockade again. Theanalysis of the responses reveals why this could be so: theparticipants’ motivation is not directly linked to protectingthe Sumava landscape, it is not of the teleological type thatcontains specific expectations. It is largely inspired byvirtue ethics, by a civic mind-set that strives for personalintegrity, does not contain high expectations in terms ofexternal changes, and is resistant to fatigue.

Motivation for Environmental Direct Action in the Czech Republic: The Case of the 2011 Blockade at the Šumava National Park