Greenpeace Africa is a growing movement of people acting in protection of the environment. Our campaigns use peaceful, creative confrontation to expose environmental injustices around the world and develop solutions for a green and peaceful future.
Up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic ends up in the oceans every year - killing marine life and threatening precious ecosystems. Greenpeace Africa volunteers took on local businesses to phase out of single-use plastics, and they are winning the battle. Join to end the age of single-use plastics.
For decades artisanal fishermen in Senegal were able to provide for their families by catching fish from the sea. Year by year, they are forced to risk their lives and travel further in search for catch. And many never return home. Find out why.
Take action today - from signing a petition, volunteering or attending a protest - together they are all vital parts of creating the green and peaceful future. In order to conserve Africa’s environment, it is going to take all of us the courage to stand up for what is right.
You can power the change in Africa. With you, we can stop environmental destruction, hold companies and governments to account and build a sustainable future for ourselves and for the planet.
Greenpeace Africa activists in collaboration with the Life After Coal Campaign scale Mandela bridge in protest against the inclusion of new coal infrastructure in South Africa's draft electricity plan (IRP2018). © Shayne Robinson
Pirogues, fishing boats, off the coast of Senegal in St Louis. © Jacky Danielly
Life on Lake Victoria, Suba District, Kenya © Jennifer Heslop
Men on motorcycle taxis in the town centre of Yokadouma in the forest region of Cameroon. The Congo forests are of global significance for biodiversity conservation and of critical importance in climate regulation. Millions of people depend on them for their basic needs of shelter, food and medicine. The biggest areas of yet largely intact rainforest are found within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The World Bank and its donors are promoting a similar model of industrial logging in the DRC to the one they advocated in the Cameroon a decade ago under the illusion that it will alleviate poverty and help the country’s economic development. So far, rather than fast tracking development and alleviating poverty, industrial logging has caused environmental destruction and social conflict and is failing both the rainforests and the people of the Cameroon in numerous ways. It is leading to the degradation of much of the Cameroon’s rainforest and has done little to reduce poverty. Wildlife species are suffering as new logging roads provide easy access for hunters into otherwise inaccessible areas. Unless the World Bank learns from its mistakes in the Cameroon and reviews its development model, the people and rainforests of the DRC will suffer a similar fate but the scale will be far greater. © Kate Davison
Johannesburg, 6 December 2018 — As the United Nations Framework Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations take place in Katowice, Poland, Earthlife Africa JHB – supported by Greenpeace Africa, the Campaign for…
South Africa, Johannesburg, 5 December 2018 — As Eskom once again implements rotational load-shedding – which may go on for years – in South Africa, Climate and Energy Campaigner for…
Yaoundé, 22nd November 2018- The negative socioeconomic and environmental repercussions of Sudcam activities in the South of Cameroon has prompted stakeholders from government and civil society to undertake a field…
I had the opportunity to do a field visit to communities impacted by Sud-Cameroun Hévéa (“Sudcam”), a rubber plantation company situated in the South region of Cameroon. Sudcam is a…
The international community is currently gathered in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt for the 14th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – an international treaty…
“Greenpeace Africa takes this opportunity to congratulate Minister Nomvula Mokonyane on her appointment as Minister of Environmental Affairs, as announced today by President Cyril Ramaphosa. We would however like to…
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