The Forestry Commission has called for the immediate redeployment of the military to help halt illegal mining and other destructive activities in forest reserves across the country. The commission said the withdrawal of the military from the fight against galamsey in forest reserves since 2022 had emboldened illegal miners to wreak havoc on forest reserves […]
Ghana has lost about 30-40 per cent of its natural wetland ecosystem since 1970s, the Executive Director of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission, Mr Bernard Asamoah-Boateng, has disclosed. That, he said, there is an urgent need to embark on restoration of wetlands to offer the critical services they provide to the environment, as […]
The Forestry Commission has confirmed that a man who reportedly jumped into the lion enclosure at the Accra Zoo Sunday afternoon and was attacked by a lion has been pronounced dead. He died from injuries sustained and the body has been conveyed to the morgue. The motive of the intruder is yet to be determined. His lifeless […]
Ghanaians will come together today to plant trees at various places in a national tree planting exercise as part of efforts to green the country. More than five million tree seedlings of different species will be planted and nurtured to maturity as an aggressive measure to preserve the country’s forest cover and the environment and […]
The Forestry Commission (FC) is to take delivery of 1,000 firearms for forest and wildlife guards to combat illegalities across the country’s forest and wildlife protected areas. The firearms will enable the guards to protect themselves and also repel the frequent attacks on them by some unscrupulous people, including illegal chainsaw operators and poachers. The […]
Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John says the bones that former president John Mahama spoke about when he made reference to the bad economic situation the country had been grinded into powder and used to prepare Tuo Zaafi. According to him, that is what accounts for […]
The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission (FC) Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie says the fight against illegal Mining, popularly known in the local parlance as galamsey is being inhibited by machinations of some powerful people in the country. Such moves according to him, makes it extremely difficult to rid the country’s forest reserves of illegal […]
Aside the scrambling of encroachers to have a piece of land along the Achimota Forest Reserve, plastic waste materials disposed by prayer groups who worship at the forest threatens the survival of the reserve. Heaps of plastic waste can be seen along the path that leads into the Forest reserve, which now houses the new […]
Beneficiaries of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) Afforestation Programme have vowed to suspend work from Monday February 4, 2019, in protest over non-payment of their allowances. The Beneficiaries at a meeting held yesterday, Tuesday January 29, 2019 resolved to suspend their duties and have impressed upon the generality of their membership to obey the decision […]
The Director of Special Duties at the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has revealed that the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known as Sir John has not received any official communication from government directing him to leave office. News of the purported termination of the appointment of some eight (8) Chief […]
The Governments of Ghana and Ecuador have signed an agreement to cooperate on environmental protection, with a focus and emphasis on forestry development. The cooperation between the two countries will be centred on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). REDD+ is a global framework through which developing countries are rewarded financially for any […]
The Joint Military-Police taskforce against illegal chainsaw operations have retrieved a mind boggling 15 thousand pieces of processed wood and 118 chainsaw machines from some 37 illegal chainsaw operators in the Sehwi-Wiawso and Juaboso areas of the Western region. These came to light when the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu […]
