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REGSEC closes down charcoal, Rosewood factories – In Savannah Region

Belinda Boator
October 21, 2021
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The Savannah Regional Security Council (REGSEC) has closed down two Chinese-run charcoal and Rosewood processing factories in the region. It has further banned harvesting of all kinds of wood species,…

Afadjato Women Rice Farmers Commended For Resilience

The Resident Representative of the united Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Madam Angela Lusigi, has commended the women rice farmers of the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region for their…

Tropenbos Ghana Board Chair Receives Highest Conservation Award from IUCN

Belinda Boator
September 15, 2021
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The Board Chair of Tropenbos Ghana, Professor Alfred Oteng-Yeboah has been awarded the highest conservation award - the John C. Phillips Memorial Medal by the International Union for Conservation of…

Stop The Issuance of Special Permits- MLNR Instructs FC

Belinda Boator
September 8, 2021
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The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) has instructed the Forestry Commission (FC) to stop the issuance of Special Permits for logging in Ghana’s forests. This was disclosed by…

SYND Partners With NCB NGO To Distribute Cooking Bags To Promote Clean Cooking

Belinda Boator
August 25, 2021
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The Strategic Youth Network for Development Ghana (SYND) in collaboration with Adumay3 Foundation has distributed 75 pieces of the organization’s environmentally friendly New Cooking Bags (NCB) to participants at the…

Bono East Regional Lands Commission inaugurated

Belinda Boator
August 6, 2021
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The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has inaugurated the Bono East Regional Lands Commission. In accordance with the Lands Commission Act of 2008, (ACT 767) the…

Forest Watch Ghana AGM 2021 In Pictures

Belinda Boator
July 26, 2021
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The 2021 Annual General Meeting of Forest Watch Ghana took place from the 12th to the 15th of July 2021 in Accra. In attendance were CSOs working in the forestry…

Civic Response Trains Enumerators And Supervisors To Collect Data On VPA Impact In Ghana

Belinda Boator
July 13, 2021
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Civic Response has trained 15 enumerators and 5 supervisors to carry out a VPA impact survey. The 4-day training workshop which took place in Accra in March 2021 aimed at…

Government Dragged to Court Over Issuance of ‘Special Permits’ as Timber Rights

Belinda Boator
July 13, 2021
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Obed Owusu-Addai, a Ghanaian citizen and an active member of a Civil Society Coalition working in the natural resources sector has dragged government to Court over the continuous issuance of…

Use FLEGT Fitness Check To Strengthen FLEGT Action Plan- CSOs Tell EU

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April 30, 2021
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Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from VPA countries and their international partners in UK and Europe have called on the European Union to use the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade…