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Greenpeace Africa and stakeholders discuss solutions to ailing forest management in Cameroon
Douala, 16 October 2017 - A High Carbon Stock (HCS) Approach to forest management has been at the center of discussions between Greenpeace Africa and environmental stakeholders in a working session held on Monday in Douala. The workshop, taking place on board Greenpeace ship, The Esperanza, sought to explore the importance of HCS in forest…
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Give the Congo Basin forest a chance
Approaching the forest in the Congo, I am met with an overwhelming wall of green. Flying over it, I see the meandering rivers merging together. I see animals drinking from the rivers, frolicking with joy in the water. Walking into the forest, I hear a chorus of teeming life – birds, lowland and mountain gorillas,…
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Greenpeace ship arrives for the first time in Cameroon with a message for the protection of the Congo Basin forest
Douala, 13 October 2017: The Greenpeace ship – The Esperanza - has docked at the port of Douala in Cameroon on the first leg of its tour in Central Africa. For four weeks, the Esperanza will sail through the waters of Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Congo to engage…
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Africa’s largest Wind farm will reduce reliance on fossil fuels in Kenya
Nairobi, 11th October, 2017: Kenya has doubled its efforts to take up renewable energy by building an epic wind farm. Lake Turkana wind power project becomes the largest wind farm in Africa with a capacity of 310 megawatts - enough to power up to one million homes.
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Cut from Congo
From 2000 to 2013, the global area of intact forest landscapes (IFLs) decreased by 7.2%, a reduction of 90 million hectares, with industrial timber extraction as the lead driver behind this fragmentation and degradation globally. In Africa, selective logging is the dominant cause of IFL loss.
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Statoil exploration threatens biodiversity of Algoa Bay
Johannesburg, 19 September - Norwegian multinational oil and gas company, Statoil’s a newly acquired East Algoa exploration licence is located just a few kilometres east of Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape, an area labelled as a marine biodiversity hotspot.
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Greenpeace’s Project Sunshine delivers in Diepsloot
Johannesburg, 8 September – After a successful crowdfunding campaign that exceeded the R100 000 target, Greenpeace Africa and the Philile Foundation’s commitment to install solar streetlights in Diepsloot will be met tomorrow when the solar streetlights are officially handed over to the community.
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Greenpeace calls on AGRF to rethink its Approach to Agriculture in Africa
Nairobi, 6th September 2017 - The seventh edition of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2017 under the theme ‘Accelerating Africa’s Path to Prosperity: Growing Inclusive Economies and Jobs through Agriculture’ is hosted in Abidjan from September 4-8 2017. The ambition of the forum has been to accelerate the progress on agriculture’s contribution to economic…
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Our land should unite, not antagonize us!
On August 5, 2017, four days before the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, I was deeply troubled by news of deadly confrontations between Bantu[1] and indigenous (Pygmy) communities in Tanganyika province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Norway and France threaten DRC’s forests
An area of rainforest the size of Italy is at risk of being cut down by loggers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), if the Norwegian government approves a French Development Agency (AFD) proposal to expand industrial logging there starting 2018.