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Mauritius Oil Disaster – Open Letter: 24 August 2020
On the 25th of July 2020 the MV Wakashio struck a beautiful and irreplaceable coral reef on Mauritius' southeast coast. The oil in the wrecked ship started to leak on 6 August and it is destroying one of the most beautiful places in the world, along with the livelihoods of the people who live there.…
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Oil and gas drilling returns to haunt South African coast
Johannesburg, 18 August 2020 — News reports this week indicated that oil and gas drill rig DeepSee Stavanger has arrived in Cape Town en route to Brulpadda prospects off the…
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Greenpeace warns against the sinking of MV WAKASHIO into the Indian Ocean
Johannesburg, 19 August, 2020. Greenpeace Africa and Greenpeace Japan react to Mauritius’ plans of sinking the front part of the MV Wakashio vessel. Wakashio is a huge vessel, from the…
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Mauritius Oil Disaster – Open Letter
On the 25th of July 2020 your ship, the MV Wakashio struck a beautiful and irreplaceable coral reef on Mauritius' southeast coast. On the 9th August you publicly expressed an apology for the environmental disaster that has been caused, but many unanswered questions remain.
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Volunteer Blog: Showcasing the Baka Culture and Beliefs
I’m called Sineh Edel-queen, a Greenpeace Africa volunteer in Cameroon (Environmental Ambassadors of Cameroon). I had the opportunity to take part in the Baka community festival in Assok-Mintom March 2019…
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COVID-19 and Indigenous Forest Communities: untold stories from the Congo Basin
The Indigenous Baka People of Cameroon
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Cutting the Hand that Feeds: The Plight of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
In the pre-colonial days of the early 1900s, Africans predominantly farmed finger millet, sorghum, pearl millet, amaranth, jute mallow, spider plant, and lablab, among other indigenous crops. The farms were…
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Greenpeace Volunteers Demand an End to the Ecocide of the uMbilo River
Volunteers from Greenpeace Africa are working with the uMbilo River Watch community group and concerned citizens to expose the severity of the pollution in uMbilo River
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HOW TO GUIDE 5: Seed sovereignty and saving
Seeds are the first link in the food chain and the repository of life’s future evolution. As such, it is our inherent duty and responsibility to protect them and to pass them on to future generations.
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HOW TO GUIDE 4: Water conservation
This how-to guide deals with methods to increase the amount of water stored in the soil profile by trapping or holding rain where it falls, or where there is some small movement as surface run-off.
