Forest Watch Ghana AGM 2021 In Pictures
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
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
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
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…
BAN CHARCOAL PRODUCTION
A member of FWG, James Saaka, has called for a ban on commercial charcoal production in Ghana. This, according to him, is in order to save shea trees which are…
INVESTIGATE FORESTRY COMMISSION’S ALLEGATIONS
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INVESTIGATE FORESTRY COMMISSION’S ALLEGATIONS Accra, 4th February 2020. We read with absolute horror and regret a news story written by Jonas Nyabor titled, “Powerful people…
CIVIC RESPONSE TRAINS COMMUNITY FOREST MONITORS
Fifty (50) community representatives have been trained to undertake community level forest monitoring. The 3-days training which was organised by Civic Response in June 2019 in Accra aimed at building…
CIVIC RESPONSE ORGANISES LEGALITY AWARENESS TRAINING FOR FOREST-FRINGE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
Thirty-five (35) forest-fringe community representatives have received legality awareness training in Accra. The 3-days training which was organised by Civic Response in June 2019 aimed at creating awareness among…
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF FOREST WATCH GHANA (FWG)
Preamble We members of Forest Watch Ghana (FWG), a coalition of 32 non-governmental organisations and individuals, having met at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) from 26th to 30th of March,…
Today is International Day of Biological Diversity
Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) and the theme for this year’s celebration is “Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health.” It seeks to increase global awareness of…