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Police, Military To Supervise Reclamation of Galamsey Lands – Amewu

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight...

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Mozambique Battles Illegal Logging To Save Tropical Forests

A squad of Mozambican forest rangers made their first arrest just minutes after arriving at a checkpoint near the...

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Trump On Looming Canadian Trade War

President Trump brushed off worries that his escalating rhetoric toward Canada might start a trade war. 'They have a...

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Goaso Forest Reserves Under Threat

From January 2017 to date, a total of 137 chainsaw machines and 29 truck-load of illegal lumber have been seized by the...

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Gonjas Armed Task Force To Hunt Down Rosewood Loggers

leadership of the Gonjaland in the Northern region has declared war against illegal timber merchants and commercial...

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29 Truckloads Impounded In Brong Ahafo Region

Twenty-nine trucks loaded with illegal lumber have been impounded by the Goaso District office of the Forest Service...

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MP Alarmed At Increased Rate of Illegal Felling of Rosewood

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Builsa South, Dr Clement Apaak, has expressed alarm at the increased rate of illegal...

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Chiefs and Police In the Northern Region Accused of Championing Illegal Logging

What used to be a practice in the West and North Gonja districts of the Northern region is gradually creeping into the...

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Illegal Lumberers Escape Arrest In Ayum Forest

Some illegal chainsaw operators operating in the Ayum Forest at Ntotroso in the Asutifi North District, escaped arrest...

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Meet the New CEO of ‘bushmen’

Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie popularly known as Sir John, has been...

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Zanetor Launches Tree Planting Campaign

The Member of Parliament for Klottey Korley, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, on Saturday launched a “Tree Planting Campaign”...

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Ghana Will Continue To Share EU’s Vision – Minister

Mr John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, said Ghana would continue to share the vision of the...

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Zanetor Rawlings Plants Trees

Klottey Korle MP, Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings has charged her constituents to plant more trees in an effort to save the...

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Galamsey To Soon Plunge Ghana Into Drastic Water Scarcity

Over the years, government has been making efforts by coming up with different policies to curb the practice of illegal...

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Minister Directs Forestry Commission

Mr John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, says there is a ban on export of Rosewood across the...

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Government Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

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Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permits

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

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Gov’t Bans Export of Rosewood, Stops Issuance of Permit

John-Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has revealed a ban has been placed on the export of...

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Myanmar Makes Record Seizures of Illegal Timber

Myanmar seized a record amount of illegal timber this financial year as part of a government clampdown to protect the...