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Greenpeace Africa responds to reinstatement of logging ban
Nairobi, 12 October 2023 – Today, the environmental court has barred the government from lifting the ban on logging, but allowed the felling of 5000 hectares of mature forest. In…
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Hands Off Our Forests
Hands off our forests! Is the famous call by Tracy Makheti who has been bold enough to challenge President William Ruto on his decision to lift the 2018 logging ban in our forests.
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Africa Climate Summit fails to deliver on African solutions for a clean energy future
6 sept. Nairobi: Today, the African Union released The African Leaders Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action on the last day of the Africa Climate Summit.
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Greenpeace Africa Calls for Reinstatement of Ban on Illegal Logging
“Greenpeace Africa is alarmed by these developments. During last year's Mashujaa day celebrations, president Ruto made a commitment to increase the forest cover to 30% by 2032. Greenpeace Africa is perturbed that 8 months down the line the president has made a u-turn on his own words.
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Ending the age of plastic: Why a global plastics treaty is essential
As delegates from different nations gather in Paris in a few days, the top most agenda for this historical meeting is to realise a global treaty that will deal with the impacts of plastic pollution from production to disposal.
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#CitizenClimate Series 05: James Wakibia
James is in the forefront of the battle line against plastic menace in rivers in Kenya. James actively tries to educate his 24 thousand followers on twitter on the dangers of plastic to the environment and how even by cleaning it up from the rivers like he does
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Greenpeace Africa Demands a Strong Global Plastic Treaty with 3D Projection at the Hilton
The iconic Hilton hotel was on Friday all lit up with a 3D projection with an End the age of plastic message in support of the upcoming second Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee session (INC2) that is happening in Paris.
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Ubunifu Hub trainees graduate: empowered with environmental knowledge and skills
At Ubunifu Hub, our focus is to empower the minds and transform the hearts of the youth into environmental defenders and activists who are innovative and capable of...
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Punitive seed law: an obstacle to food and seed sovereignty
Growing up in the rural village of Kibandahasara, I often saw members of our community growing different varieties of indigenous foods that were used to nourish their families. From rice…
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Leasing land to grow maize in Zambia; a slap on Kenyan farmers’ face: Greenpeace
Despite concerns raised by industry players over the move by Kenya’s ministry of Agriculture to grow maize in Zambia, Agriculture CS, Mithika Linturi has formally made known his ministry’s intention to continue with the plan to secure 20,000 hectares of land for large-scale growing of maize in the Southern Africa nation.
