Archive: 2020
The International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN) on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 announced that its members overwhelmingly voted to adopt Motion 103 calling for ‘Urgent measures to safeguard the globally important Atewa Forest, Ghana’. Now it is a formal IUCN resolution, the Ghana government is (again) given a clear […]
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) including A Rocha Ghana (ARG) have taken government of Ghana to court to overturn plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve (ARF). ARG, together with six (6) other CSOs on Wednesday, July 1, 2020 filed a suit against the Attorney General at the […]
The Atewa Forest is the final landscape to be featured in the series of four landscapes that are invaluable to the well-being of Ghanaians. Aerial View of Atewa Forest , Photo Credit: A Rocha Ghana The Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa eco-region is recognised as an area of high […]
According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), Pangolins are the most trafficked animals on the planet. They are illegally hunted and traded both locally and internationally for their meat and scales which is believed to have healing powers in some Asian countries such as China. In […]
The Concerned Citizens of Atewa Landscape (CCAL) on January 21, 2020, embarked on a massive demonstration to protest government’s plan to mine the Atewa Forest for bauxite. The protest, which measured a distance of three kilometres from Segyemase to Kyebi in the Eastern Region of Ghana, garnered close to 500 […]
A Rocha Ghana, together with other NGOs and individuals, wish to inform the general public that a notice of civil action against the Government of Ghana has been filed with the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Honourable Gloria A. Akuffo, over its plans to exploit the Atewa Range Forest […]
…Immediate Conservation Plan Needed Afia Birago Puddle Frog can be distinguished by the combination of a slender body, short and pointed snout, a relatively warty dorsum and a black-spotted throat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared the Afia Birago Puddle Frog as critically endangered. This news comes […]
GIADEC Should Stop Misinforming The Media And The Public The Coalition of NGOs Against Mining Atewa (CONAMA) is demanding that the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC), stops misinforming the Ghanaian Public on the bauxite development agenda. The GIADEC in a recent engagement with the media raised certain facts and […]