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 ...
Tag: Forestry
Police, Military To Supervise Reclamation of Galamsey Lands – Amewu
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight against ...
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 ...
Trump On Looming Canadian Trade War
President Trump brushed off worries that his escalating rhetoric toward Canada might start a trade war. 'They have a tremendous ...
Goaso Forest Reserves Under Threat
From January 2017 to date, a total of 137 chainsaw machines and 29 truck-load of illegal lumber have been seized ...
Gonjas Armed Task Force To Hunt Down Rosewood Loggers
leadership of the Gonjaland in the Northern region has declared war against illegal timber merchants and commercial charcoal burners whose ...
29 Truckloads Impounded In Brong Ahafo Region
Twenty-nine trucks loaded with illegal lumber have been impounded by the Goaso District office of the Forest Service Division (FSD) ...
MP Alarmed At Increased Rate of Illegal Felling of Rosewood
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal ...
Chiefs and Police In the Northern Region Accused of Championing Illegal Logging
What used to be a practice in the West and North Gonja districts of the Northern region is gradually creeping ...
Illegal Lumberers Escape Arrest In Ayum Forest
Some illegal chainsaw operators operating in the Ayum Forest at Ntotroso in the Asutifi North District, escaped arrest after an ...
Meet the New CEO of ‘bushmen’
Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie popularly known as Sir John, has been appointed as ...
Zanetor Launches Tree Planting Campaign
The Member of Parliament for Klottey Korley, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, on Saturday launched a “Tree Planting Campaign” in her constituency ...
Ghana Will Continue To Share EU’s Vision – Minister
Mr John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, said Ghana would continue to share the vision of the ...
Zanetor Rawlings Plants Trees
Klottey Korle MP, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings has charged her constituents to plant more trees in an effort to save the ...
Galamsey To Soon Plunge Ghana Into Drastic Water Scarcity
Over the years, government has been making efforts by coming up with different policies to curb the practice of illegal ...
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 ...
Government Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits
John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of ...
Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits
John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of ...
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 ...
Myanmar Makes Record Seizures of Illegal Timber
Myanmar seized a record amount of illegal timber this financial year as part of a government clampdown to protect the ...