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The Forestry Commission has set ambitious operational priorities for itself in 2024. The Commission intends to supervise the successful completion of reclamation and revegetation activities in mined-out sites within the Denyau Shelterbelt, Supuma, and Afao Hills Forest Reserves. It also looks to submit Legal Acquisition Findings (LAF) for Rosewood to the CITES Secretariat, Geneva, and obtain approval for the Rosewood ...

The Executive Director of the Forestry Commission, Mr john Allotey, has handed over equipment worth Millions of  Ghana Cedis to the Forest Services Department and Wildlife Division of the Commission to enhance their operations. The equipment, which were procured with funds from the Ghana Shea Landscape Restoration Project(GSLRP). included, 42 motorcycles,22 tricycles, and 3,200 watering cans. Presenting the items at a ...

Some Stakeholders have urged political party leaders to leverage the Youth Manifesto in drafting their manifestoes for the 2024 general elections. A staggering 60% of young people surveyed want the next government to focus on creating jobs, a dramatic shift from the 2020 Youth Manifesto where employment only ranked second. Education and access to loans follow as key concerns. Senior ...

The Executive Director of the Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL), Mr Augustine Niber has cautioned community activists and leaders in mining-affected communities who have been offered paralegal training not to portray themselves as lawyers. .“Let me caution participants against the temptation to assume the role of lawyers since the training workshops do not qualify you as such,” Mr Niber ...

The Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL)and Third World Network Africa (TWN-Africa)have joined forces to hold paralegal training for some community leaders and activists in salt and sand mining communities in the Greater Accra and Volta regions. The three-day training aimed at equipping the participants with basic legal knowledge and skills in mining and human rights laws to help identify ...

A team from the Rapid Response Unit of the Forestry Commission, drawn from various districts across the country, has demobilised 10 excavators and arrested eight persons for engaging in illegal mining activities in the Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve in the Juaboso Forest District of the Western North Region on Monday. They were made up of four Chinese nationals and four ...

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has observed that the country’s agricultural goals were intended to be met by the second phase of Planting for Food and Jobs ( PFJ). He said there was great potential for the food and agriculture sectors in the new phase, which was still in its early phases of execution after being introduced in August ...

The Inspector-General of Police( IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare says the security agencies will ensure that the 2024 elections is peaceful and incident-free. According to the IGP, just as elections in the country have been peaceful since he assumed office, the 2024 polls will be no different. Speaking at a meeting of the national election security task force at the Police headquarters, Dr. Akuffo Dampare also assured the chairperson of ...

Some residents of Effutu in the Central region have taken to the streets to show their displeasure over allegations of the possible sale of the Ramsar site in Winneba to some investors for mining. The concerned residents clad in red apparel say the site being given to the investor is the same site they use in hunting deer for the ...

President Akufo-Addo has declined assenting to the Criminal Offences Amendment Bill 2023, the Wildlife Resources Management Bill 2023 and the Armed Forces Amendment Bill 2023. The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, on November 27, 2023, criticised the President for failing to communicate to Parliament his stance on the Criminal Offences Amendment Bill 2023 which seeks to criminalize attacks on alleged ...