Protect The Environment
A healthy environment is essential to a green and peaceful world. Oceans, forests, rivers, wildlife – we work to protect nature in all its biodiversity.
What you can do
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Protect the EnvironmentStop the industrial plunder of West Africa
The industrial fishing lobby is powerful, and West Africa’s fishing communities can’t fight this battle alone.
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Protect the EnvironmentProtect the Congo Rainforest
The forests of the Congo are facing growing threats, highlighted by the recent announcement from the Republic of Congo to double its oil production to 500,000 barrels per day by 2027.
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Protect the EnvironmentStop the attack on Kenya’s forests now!
Iconic Kenyan forests making up almost 10 times the size of Nairobi are under threat.
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Protect the EnvironmentStop Deep Sea Mining
In Africa, where biodiversity flourishes on land and in its surrounding seas, the deep sea is a treasure trove of biodiversity and home to untold wonders and possibilities. It is also one of our best allies against climate change.
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Protect the EnvironmentStop Shell’s seismic blasting – News and ways to get involved
Shell plans to survey for oil and gas deposits on the South Africa Wildcoast. Join to stop them.
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The Kivu–Kinshasa Green Corridor: Red Flags And The Urgent Need For A Moratorium On New Extractive Projects
This brief raises profound contradictions between the Corridor’s conservation objectives and the expansion of extractive industries. Areas intended to serve as a model for sustainable development and community-led stewardship are now exposed to the risks associated with oil exploration and production, as well as mining activities that will result in deforestation and habitat fragmentation.
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Camouflaged destruction: Plundering of Campo Forests under the pretext of a so-called “Development” Project
On 16 February 2022, the Minister of Forestry and Wildlife signed a series of orders granting localized timber sales in the Campo Subdivision, Ocean Division, South Region.
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Concerns regarding the Democratic Republic of Congo oil and gas auction and donor financing of pre-COP27
1. Greenpeace Africa would like to take this opportunity to alert you to the death threats our staff has received from anonymous callers related to its criticism of the 28-29 July oil and gas auction. These threats occurred as Greenpeace was preparing to set out on field missions to potentially impacted communities in Tshuapa, Equateur…
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Greenpeace Africa and Greenpeace USA call for the Protection of Forests & Peatlands and the End of Oil and Gas Expansion in DRC
WASHINGTON DC (August 10, 2022) — On the back of their face-to-face meeting in Kinshasa, Secretary Antony J. Blinken and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula, announced a formal working group to protect forests and peatlands. The DRC is currently exploring a plan to auction off 26 oil…
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Voices on extractive economies from the Eastern Cape: Part 1
We are not saying we will never see change. What I’m saying is that we will die trying. As long as we are still alive, we will never stop fighting
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Policy Recommendations: Strengthening Refill and Reuse Systems in Kenya’s Environmental Framework
Multiple policy, legal and regulatory frameworks remain largely focused on recycling and post-consumer waste management, rather than preventing waste through systemic refill and reuse solutions. While reuse is mentioned conceptually in EPR regulations, they are not yet supported through specific mandates, standards, or incentives. This creates a critical policy gap especially as Kenya grapples with…
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As Cameroon celebrates its WAFCON victory, communities push for victory for Ebo Forest too.
As Cameroon celebrates the triumph of the Indomitable Lionesses on the African stage, attention must also turn to another national heritage at a crossroads: Ebo Forest and the need to secure the customary land rights of the Banen communities, who have claimed these ancestral territories for generations.