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“All Senegalese feel the Burn” – Greenpeace Africa reacts to the tragedy between an industrial fishing vessel and an artisanal fishing pirogue in West Africa
A clash between the industrial fishing vessel "Soleil 7” and an artisanal fishing pirogue from Mbour had caused injury to the invoked mariners and damaged the pirogue's equipment
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Greenpeace Reacts to Reports of Oil in Pregnant Whale Carcass in Mauritius
Last weekend Mauritian media reported that a Forensic Science Laboratory had discovered traces of oil (hydrocarbons) during an autopsy of a pregnant melon-headed whale carcass, conducted to determine the cause of death of 50 whales and dolphins.
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Illegal giant palm oil plantation flattening indigenous people’s rainforest and threatening endangered wildlife in Cameroon
llegal clear-cutting of ancestral lands of the Indigenous Bagyeli people has begun in a biodiversity hotspot in coastal Cameroon
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Analysis Exposes American Chemistry Council’s “Chemical Recycling” Fantasy
A new Greenpeace report, Deception by the Numbers, examines 52 projects touted by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as “chemical” or “advanced” recycling, finding that many are either not viable or misleadingly promoted as recycling
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Greenpeace Africa on floods and thousands displaced in Senegal: “Community aid is not enough. Bold climate action needed to prevent more floods”
Dakar, 7 September 2020 – Senegal found itself submerged under water, after extraordinary floods yesterday, with more rainfall in one day than the total amount that usually falls during the…
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Covid-19 Fuelling the Resurgence of Single-use Plastics
Africa is a world leader in banning plastic bags with thirty-four out of fifty-two countries having bans, or passed the legislation to ban single-use plastics. Much as the current COVID-19…
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Ban the Bag: Greenpeace Africa implores public to comment on plastic regulations
Johannesburg, 02 September 2020 — The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has called for public comment on amendments to plastic bag regulations[1] which favour recycling, a false solution to…
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Don’t Let Africa Become a Dumping Site: Greenpeace Urges CS Maina
Nairobi, 2 September 2020 – Following the release of the New York Times article and Greenpeace Africa’s Media Release revealing that lobbyists from the American Chemistry Council wants to use…
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Looming threat of second oil spill in Mauritius: Greenpeace calls for transparency
On August 31, around 19.30 Mauritius local time, a barge carrying oil from the stricken Japanese iron-ore vessel The Wakashio collided with a tug boat pulling it.
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Industry Lobby The US Government to Make Africa Backslide on Plastics
The American Chemistry Council has lobbied the US government during the COVID-19 pandemic to use a US-Kenya trade deal to expand the plastics industry’s footprint across Africa.