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Gov’t To Employ 400 People As Forest Guards

The Forestry Commission (FC) is to employ 400 people to serve as forest guards to protect the country’s forest...

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Water Company Considers Shutting Barekese and Owabi Dams

The Ghana Water Company is considering a shutdown of its operations at the Barekese and Owabi dams in the Ashanti...

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Forest Watch Backs Supreme Court Action Against Exton Cubic

Civil society organisation Forest Watch Ghana (FWG) has backed a move to legally contest the mining right given Exton...

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How It Happened and Ghana’s Increasing Suicide Rate

The Kumasi policeman suicide which occurred Wednesday morning, adds to the incessant cases of suicide across the...

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Offsetting Mining Impact With Reforestation

A flock of birds chirp endlessly. Tall trees nearby whisper breezes and chainsaw roars a stone throw away. Shrubs and...

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Who Cares About Climate Change, REDD+?

Good as it may sound, it appears Ghana in our quest to mortgage the Bauxite deposits is losing sight of the fact that...

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Ag. SEC Boss, 19 Others Conferred Fellows of HR Practitioners

The Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners, Ghana (IHRMP), has conferred Fellow status to 20...

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Was Upper Denkyira West DCE Right After All?

It was Tuesday 30th May 2017. Many Ghanaians had woken up to viral videos of the gruesome killing of a soldier. That...

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Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Thwart Gov’t’s ‘Tree On the Farm’ Initiative

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms,...

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Farmers Soon To Claim Ownership of Commercial Trees

A Tree Tenure Policy would soon roll-out to provide farmers the legal right to claim ownership of commercial trees...

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Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Heighten Risk of Climate Change As They Cut Down Trees On Farms

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms,...

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Baako Fingers ‘big Fish’ At Forestry Commission

Editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide is accusing “a big fish” at the Forestry Commission of selling Ghana’s...

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Top Forestry Official Selling Forests To Chinese Miners – Baako

The editor of the New Crusading Guide, Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, has disclosed that there is a “big man” at the...

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Sumbrungu Chiefs, Residents Protest Relocation of Airport

Residents of Sumbrungu including the chiefs in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East region have advised the...

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I’ll Consider Contesting NPP General Secretary Position

A former general secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Lawyer Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, aka Sir John, has...

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Asantehene Applauds Government For Fight Against Galamsey

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has commended the government for its bold step to halt illegal mining (galamsey),...

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Amewu Seeks Finance Ministry Clearance To Deploy More Forest Guards In Galamsey Fight

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John-Peter Amewu, is seeking clearance from the Ministry of Finance to...

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Otumfuo Supports Ban On Galamsey

Fight against illegal mining in the country received a massive boost last Friday, May 19, 2017 when the Asantehene...

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‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’- the ‘galamsey’ Tale

Though there exist laws on small scale mining, according to the 2008 Ghana Chamber of Mines report, illegal mining...