Ghana’s first Marine Protected Area at Cape Three Points promises to restore declining fish stocks, but key questions on boundaries, enforcement, funding, and community consultation remain unanswered.
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Over 30,000 Ghanaians die from air pollution each year, but the official monitors don’t see what Agbogbloshie breathes. One grandmother’s story exposes the gap between data and deadly reality.
When the rains stop trusting the sky, a farmer in northern Ghana reads the wind, the radio, and the satellite. This is the human face of climate adaptation.
Ghana launches a new EU-funded forest governance project to strengthen FLEGT implementation, tree tenure reform, and community participation following Africa’s first FLEGT licence issuance, aiming to ensure sustainable timber trade and inclusive forest management.
Umar Musah lost his father. Jeremiah Duyab lost his farm. With climate change shrinking grazing land and no national policy on reserves, Ghana’s farmer-herder crisis is spilling across borders.
Ghana is unlocking billion-dollar carbon market opportunities under the Paris Agreement by strengthening national carbon market capacity, advancing Article 6 carbon trading, attracting global investors, and positioning itself as Africa’s leader in high-integrity carbon credit markets and climate finance.
How Ghana’s mercury‑fueled gold rush is poisoning children, killing the last 60 chimpanzees, and betraying the Minamata Convention—an investigation into impunity and environmental collapse
The Western Regional House of Chiefs has inaugurated the NGO Positive Action for Environmental Protection Ghana (PAFEP-WRC-GH) to support government efforts against galamsey, protect water bodies, and promote shared responsibility in environmental governance across the Western Region.
Ghana has revoked L.I. 2462, banning mining in forest reserves effective December 10, 2025. Environmental groups hail the move as a landmark victory while calling for reforms to existing mining licenses, stronger enforcement, and amendments to the Minerals and Mining Act to fully protect Ghana’s forests.
Ghana revokes L.I. 2462 after civil society pressure, closing mining loopholes that exposed forest reserves and marking a major environmental policy shift.