The Coalition of NGOs against Mining in Atewa Forest on Friday, June 21, 2019 presented to the Parliament of Ghana, a petition which concerns the mining of Bauxite in the Atewa Forest. The aim of the march was to draw Parliament’s attention of the need to make informed decisions for the protection and effective management […]
Mr John Pwamang, the Acting Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the country cannot put a total ban on plastics due to the large number of plastic industries in the country. “If you look at the kind of manufacturing system we have in Ghana and the number of people that are employed, […]
The future of Atewa Forest Reserve remains uncertain provoking global environmentalists to intensify unrelenting campaign to save the forest described as exceptional biological importance with the finest upland evergreen forest. The global environmental campaigners include; A Rocha Ghana, Friends of the Earth, Herp Ghana, Rainforest Trust, Ghana Institute of Foresters, the Netherlands Committee of the […]
A total of about 100 people were said to have been injured after a gas explosion at a company in Sekondi-Takoradi Tuesday morning. Ghumco, a utensils manufacturing company was said to be receiving liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from a tanker when the explosion occurred. The tanker split into two, flipped over and landed in a […]
