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Greenpeace Africa response to Mauritius oil spill
Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 August, 2020. Greenpeace Africa responds to reports about the MV Wakashio bulk carrier leaking tonnes of diesel and bunker fuel into the Indian Ocean.
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Plastic pollution is making our seals suffer!
Marine plastic debris is one of the most pressing environmental concerns facing the world today. From microplastic ingestion to bioaccumulation of toxins and endocrine system disruption in humans – these…
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Greenpeace Africa: “Cameroon’s government just decided to massacre Ebo forest”
Yaoundé, 23 July 2020 – Greenpeace Africa and local communities denounce a decision by the Government of Cameroon to open up 68,385 hectares of pristine rainforest to logging. The fate…
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Greenpeace Africa comments on loggers demands excluded from finance law revision
Yaoundé, 11 June 2020 – A request for massive tax reduction made two weeks ago by the loggers’ association GFBC was not included in the revision of the finance law…
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Protect Kenya’s Forests for a Healthy Ecosystem: Greenpeace
Nairobi, 27 May 2020 – Responding to the news that the Ministry of Environment and Forestry has pledged to plant 1.8 billion trees by 2022 as efforts to reverse biodiversity…
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140+ Africans on Zoom action to #SaveCongoRainforest on Biodiversity Day
May 22, Johannesburg – More than 140 activists from across Africa gathered today in a Zoom action on the International Day of Biodiversity. Youth activists in Africa and around the…
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#SaveCongoRainforest Zoom Action on World Biodiversity Day
Speech by Vanesa Nakate
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Worried about biodiversity? End Industrial Activity in the Rainforest
As we write this article, the world is still dealing with the COVID19 pandemic. Since the crisis began, it had repeatedly been shown that a healthy and undisturbed nature, especially…
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Global crisis now! What nature is reminding us
Hello Readers! My name is Enjer Ashraf, founder My Tree Initiative Uganda living in Kampala, Uganda. l love so much working with children. My team and I work with primary…
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Ebo forest is a blessing to more than 40 communities, numerous threatened species and the planet
Ebo forest in Cameroon is one of the intact forest ecosystems in the Gulf of Guinea, stretching over 2000km. It is a massive biodiversity hotspot, which is why in 2006…