By Elsie Appiah-OseiAccra, Feb. 12, GNA—The European Forest Institute (EFI) has launched a new project to support Ghana’s efforts in sustainable forest management and governance.The project, ...

Environmental NGO, A Rocha Ghana has dismissed a recent claim by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources that Ghana’s forest reserve remains intact. Answering a specific question in Parliament on ...

By Daryl Bosu On Dec. 10, 2025, Ghana’s government revoked one of the worst pieces of environmental legislation in our country’s history. The Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Rampant deforestation has cleared seven percent of Ghana’s tree cover in just over a decade Ghana contains forests that are biologically unique and ...

This primeval forest in southern Ghana boasts 300 species of birds, unique monkeys and the highly endangered forest elephant and bongo antelope. But the only wildlife I saw was one very long worm. The ...

Bauxite mining would threaten birds, plants, and clean water. A Christian conservation group is fighting the Ghana government in court over plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve. The ...

Deforestation of Ghana’s primary forests jumped 60 percent between 2017 and 2018 – the biggest jump of any tropical country. Most of this occurred in the country’s protected areas, including its ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KAKUM NATIONAL PARK, Ghana — This primeval forest in southern Ghana boasts 300 species of birds, unique monkeys and the highly endangered forest elephant and ...

It is seen as the better of only two Upland Evergreen forests left intact in the country, forming part of the six dominant vegetation zones of Ghana based on different climates zones. The Atewa forest ...

Ghana has become the second country in Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, commonly known as ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Oct 2018) (16 pages) Conflicts over forests and trees threaten the sustainability of the resource base. The nature and causes of such conflicts have been ...