Five Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have served notice to proceed to court next week if the government does not annul its contracts with some companies to log and mine in Globally Significant Biodiversity Areas (GSBAs)…
Civil Society-led Independent Forest Monitoring platform members have undergone training in a newly developed indigenous application that will be used for real time monitoring of Ghana’s forests. The training which took place in Accra in…
A coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has petitioned President Akufo Addo and the Speaker of Parliament to revoke “Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulation L.I 2462, which according to them offends provisions in…
Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) has organised the first-ever Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities(IPLC) workshop on Community Protected Areas (CPA) in Ghana. The workshop which took place in August 2023 in Accra, brought together participants drawn…
Some cocoa farmers in the Western North Region are worried about the increasing cost of farm inputs and agrochemicals. This, according to them, will render the historic farm gate price of cocoa government announced not…
A year after Civic Response published a documentary on the Impact of APSD Plantation on Communities near Atebubu in the Bono East Region of Ghana, residents say they still suffer human rights abuses at the…
Ghanaian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the environmental sector have urged the European Commission not to re-tabled confiscated timber as a precondition for Ghana’s Voluntary Partnership Agreement(VPA) readiness. This was contained in a press release…
Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the environmental sector are urging the Government of Ghana to rescind its decision to cede portions of the Achimota forest reserve. President Akufo-Addo under Executive Instrument 144 has lifted…
Elvis Oppong-Mensah, a Programmes Officer with Civic Response has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reconsider government’s latest decision on the Achimota Forest Reserve. While government has through Lands and Natural Resources Samuel…
When the United Kingdom (UK) finally seceded from the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020, it was not just members of the EU who were concerned about the impacts of the move in the…