World Bank Implements Project To Mitigate Climate Change
The World Bank (WB), with funding from its Climate Investment Fund, has launched a US$5.5 million project to mitigate the ...
Tag: Deforestation
Bawumia’s Claims On Increased Port Revenue Refuted
The Executive Secretary of the Importers and Exporters Association of Ghana, Sampson Asaaki Awingobit has rubbished Dr Bawumia’s claims that ...
Who Cares About Climate Change, REDD+?
Good as it may sound, it appears Ghana in our quest to mortgage the Bauxite deposits is losing sight of ...
Memory Tree Initiative Partners NINSEC To Plant 10,000 Trees
Memory Tree Initiative, a nonprofit organization committed to commemorative tree planting to combat global warming, has partnered the Ningo Senior ...
Planting of 10,000 Trees Begins
A project to plant 10,000 trees nationwide has commenced at the Ningo Senior High School (NINSEC) at Ningo-Prampram in the ...
Farmers Soon To Claim Ownership of Commercial Trees
A Tree Tenure Policy would soon roll-out to provide farmers the legal right to claim ownership of commercial trees planted ...
Gov’t Initiates Measures To Curb Deforestation
Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources on Thursday expressed government’s commitment to institute measures to ...
Tropical Peat Forests Risk Turning From Carbon
Peat bogs in tropical forests, long key outlets for greenhouse gases, could dry up due to farming and global warming, ...
World Bank Signs US$5.5 Million Grant For Natural Resources Management
The World Bank has signed a grant agreement with Solidarity West Africa for Natural Resources Management in 53 selected local ...
Ghanaian Communities To Benefit From $5.5m World Bank Grant
The World Bank signed a grant agreement with Solidaridad West Africa for Natural Resources Management in 53 selected local communities ...
Ghana’s Delegation Attend UN Forum On Forest Management
A seven member Ghana government delegation is attending the 12Th session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF12) at ...
Adopt Comprehensive Policies To Tackle Illegal Chainsaw Lumbering – Oforikrom MP
Member of Parliament for Oforikrom Dr Emmanuel Marfo is calling for a comprehensive approach to tackle the illegal lumbering menace ...
Study Identifies Farming In Forest Reseves As Lead Cause of Deforestation
A study has ascertained that of all the factors driving deforestation in Ghana, agriculture is prime with cocoa cultivation being ...
Mozambique Battles Illegal Logging To Save Tropical Forests
A squad of Mozambican forest rangers made their first arrest just minutes after arriving at a checkpoint near the northern ...
Cocoa Industry Agrees Plan To Tackle Deforestation
Major chocolate makers, including Ferrero, Nestle and Mars, agreed Thursday a landmark initiative to tackle deforestation in top cocoa producers ...
Minister Directs Forestry Commission
Mr John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, says there is a ban on export of Rosewood across ...
Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permit
John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of ...
Ghana To Do Palm Oil Business Without Causing Deforestation
Ghana, together with six other African countries, has agreed in a declaration signed on Wednesday to protect their tropical forests ...
Ghana Gets $24m To Restore Degraded Forests
Ghana has received approval for $24 million for the first-of-a-kind Private-Public Partnership project to restore degraded forest reserves and double ...
Why Does The Future Take So Long To Arrive?
In late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first email message. It was ten letters long (QWERTYUIOP) ...