Gov’t To Roll Out Reforestation Program In 2018
The government of Nana Akufo-Addo has been taking giant strides towards ensuring that illegal mining commonly known in Ghana as ...
Tag: Forestry Commission
Gov’t To Employ 400 People As Forest Guards
The Forestry Commission (FC) is to employ 400 people to serve as forest guards to protect the country’s forest reserves ...
Water Company Considers Shutting Barekese and Owabi Dams
The Ghana Water Company is considering a shutdown of its operations at the Barekese and Owabi dams in the Ashanti ...
Forest Watch Backs Supreme Court Action Against Exton Cubic
Civil society organisation Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) has backed a move to legally contest the mining right given Exton Cubic ...
How It Happened and Ghana’s Increasing Suicide Rate
The Kumasi policeman suicide which occurred Wednesday morning, adds to the incessant cases of suicide across the country in recent ...
Offsetting Mining Impact With Reforestation
A flock of birds chirp endlessly. Tall trees nearby whisper breezes and chainsaw roars a stone throw away. Shrubs and ...
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 ...
Ag. SEC Boss, 19 Others Conferred Fellows of HR Practitioners
The Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana (IHRMP), has conferred Fellow status to 20 Practitioners who have distinguished themselves ...
Was Upper Denkyira West DCE Right After All?
It was Tuesday 30th May 2017. Many Ghanaians had woken up to viral videos of the gruesome killing of a ...
Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Thwart Gov’t’s ‘Tree On the Farm’ Initiative
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding ...
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 ...
Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Heighten Risk of Climate Change As They Cut Down Trees On Farms
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding ...
Baako Fingers ‘big Fish’ At Forestry Commission
Editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide is accusing “a big fish” at the Forestry Commission of selling Ghana’s ...
Top Forestry Official Selling Forests To Chinese Miners – Baako
The editor of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, has disclosed that there is a “big man” at the ...
Sumbrungu Chiefs, Residents Protest Relocation of Airport
Residents of Sumbrungu including the chiefs in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East region have advised the Aviation Minister ...
I’ll Consider Contesting NPP General Secretary Position
A former general secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Lawyer Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, aka Sir John, has revealed ...
Asantehene Applauds Government For Fight Against Galamsey
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has commended the government for its bold step to halt illegal mining (galamsey), that ...
Amewu Seeks Finance Ministry Clearance To Deploy More Forest Guards In Galamsey Fight
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John-Peter Amewu, is seeking clearance from the Ministry of Finance to employ 400 ...
Otumfuo Supports Ban On Galamsey
Fight against illegal mining in the country received a massive boost last Friday, May 19, 2017 when the Asantehene Otumfuo ...
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’- the ‘galamsey’ Tale
Though there exist laws on small scale mining, according to the 2008 Ghana Chamber of Mines report, illegal mining activities ...