Tag: A Rocha Ghana

A Rocha Ghana and other groups condemn an illegal attempt to divert the Birim River at Apapam

"The amendment institutionalizes a regime where the vast majority of forest reserves could be legally mined, leaving Ghana’s natural heritage exposed."

Deputy Director of A Rocha, Daryl Bossu, has strongly criticised the Ministry of Interior’s new strategy of deporting foreign illegal miners without subjecting them to Ghana’s criminal justice system. Bossu ...

Environmental groups argue that the law, passed in 2022 without broad stakeholder consultation, threatens the nation’s forest ecosystems and water resources. 

Ghana’s forests and mining resources have long served as pillars of the nation’s economic development. However, rapid deforestation and unsustainable mining practices have led to a severe decline in biodiversity, ...

Environmental group A Rocha Ghana has reiterated its firm stance against the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulations, 2022 (L.I. 2462), calling for its immediate repeal.   The group’s ...

A Rocha Ghana, a leading environmental conservation group, has condemned the recent violent attacks on a media investigative team on October 21, 2024.  In a press statement, A Rocha Ghana underscored the increasing impunity with ...

A Rocha Ghana, a prominent environmental conservation organization, has urged for the immediate removal of the Ghanaian government from its position as Co-Chair of the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP). ...

Deputy national director of A Rocha Ghana, Daryl Bosu, has expressed concern about government's lack of prioritization in dealing with issues of illegal mining (galamsey) in the country. According to ...

Deputy national director of A Rocha Ghana, Daryl Bosu, has criticized government’s Green Ghana project, aimed at restoring the country’s degraded lands, describing it as government’s way of greenwashing Ghanaians. ...