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A blind eye to pollution on Durban beaches
My first victory this year with Greenpeace Africa is creating awareness about plastic pollution and calling for action or an end to plastic pollution.
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The Air We Breathe
My first victory this year with Greenpeace Africa is creating awareness about plastic pollution and calling for action or an end to plastic pollution.
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Congo’s Oil Ministry greenwashing exposed: New oil blocks overlap Protected Areas, maps reveal
Kinshasa, 14 June 2022 – Nine of the 16 oil blocks to be auctioned in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) next month overlap Protected Areas, according to a review…
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One small step at a time…
My relationship with Greenpeace Africa started in early 2019. Out of the blue I was swept up in a whole new world, a new family and a great group of like-minded people who were there for the same reason I was. To make change happen.
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World Oceans Day: As food insecurity worsens, Greenpeace Africa and fishing communities across West Africa demand action on the fishmeal and fish oil industry “to prevent a human catastrophe”
Fishing communities and civil society groups across West Africa will unite today (8 June, World Oceans Day) in a show of strength against the fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO) industry…
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DR Congo chooses oil over rainforests and human rights: Greenpeace Africa calls to scrap “historic error” to auction 16 new oil blocks
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has approved at the fortieth meeting of the council of ministers last week a plan to auction 16 oil blocks. This action would have cataclysmic consequences for the global climate and local communities.
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Joint letter to the Secretariat and Board Members of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and members of the Inter-donor Group for the Environment in DRC (GIBE)
We are writing in response to the General Inspectorate of Finance’s (IGF) audit of industrial logging concessions in DRC published by the Environment Ministry on April 1, and to ask that you take swift and appropriate measures to address its damning findings, including that the national logging moratorium be extended indefinitely.
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Senegal’s Presidential Council on Fisheries: We’re still waiting
Dakar, 31 March: Greenpeace Africa reminds the President of the Republic of his commitment to hold a presidential council on fishing.
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How to Refill and Reuse at Home
The latest data from the U.S Environmental Protection Agency estimate that the average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of trash every day. However, this has since reduced, especially after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), introduced the “reduce, reuse, and recycle” campaign.
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#PlasticTreaty: Stop exploiting African and other global majority countries with ‘waste colonialism’
Richer countries are scrambling to find nations in the global majority to ship their waste off to. Angelo Louw unpacks waste colonialism and the need for a strong global plastic treaty
