Ban Charcoal Production

A member of FWG, James Saaka, has called for a ban on commercial charcoal production in Ghana. This, according to him, is in order to save shea trees which are felled for charcoal production. The…

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CIVIC RESPONSE RE-TRAINS COMMUNITY FOREST MONITORS

Twenty (20) community forest monitors have been re-trained to undertake forest monitoring and reporting activities. The 20 are part of 25 community representatives trained by Civic Response last year (2017) to undertake community level forest…

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GHANA LAUNCHES TIMBER TRANSPARENCY PORTAL

Civic Response, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission of Ghana, has launched the Ghana Timber Transparency Portal. The portal is a web interface which makes information on logging in Ghana available to the public via…

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CIVIC RESPONSE TRAINS COMMUNITY FOREST MONITORS

Twenty-five (25) community representatives have been trained to undertake community level forest monitoring. The training which was organised by Civic Response in Larteh in the Eastern Region aimed at building the capacity of representatives to…

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CSO’S CAPACITIES BUILT ON ADVOCACY AND POLICY INFLUENCING

18/8/2017 Members of Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) have received training on advocacy and policy influencing. The two-day capacity building exercise, which was organised by Forest Watch Ghana with support from Tropenbos Ghana, aimed at strengthening…

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GHANA TO SOON IMPORT TIMBER

Ghana would soon be importing timber from neighbouring countries, CEO of Domestic Lumber Trade Association of Ghana (DOLTA), Mr. Kofi Afreh-Boakye has hinted. He said this is in order to bridge the demand-supply gap on…

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