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Meru’s elephants have a maternity area. Kenya is building an airstrip right next to it.
Every dry season, the elephants of Mt. Kenya come home to Imenti. It is where they return when water grows scarce elsewhere.
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Illicit Gold Trade: Greenpeace Africa demands immediate freeze on new gold concessions in Cameroon
Yaoundé, June 16, 2026 – Between 2021 and 2025, an estimated 44,000 kilograms (44 tons) of gold left Cameroon for Dubai, while Cameroon customs declared only 148 kilograms for export. The value of this gold is estimated at nearly 2,000 billion CFA francs (approximately USD 3.4 billion), equivalent to the annual budget of the Ministry…
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They came to grieve Nairobi National Park. They left in police trucks.
Kenyans gathered to mourn. Not a person, but a place. They came for a funeral procession for Nairobi National Park, the world's only national park inside a capital city, gazetted in 1946 and now facing yet another bite out of its protected land.
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Rural women are on the front line of the climate crisis. It is time the world acts like it.
This year's World Environment Day theme "From awareness to action" sounds urgent. But for the millions of rural women living alongside logging concessions, industrial agriculture and mining sites across Africa urgency is not a theme.
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The destruction of Imenti Forest is the latest price Kenya is paying for development it never needed
In September 2025, Greenpeace Africa sounded the alarm. Reports had emerged that 50 acres of Imenti Forest in Meru County were being considered for a State Lodge, a golf course and an airstrip - a directive said to have come from the President himself during a meeting with Meru leaders. We called for an immediate…
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At Mbandaka, training forest guardians begins in schools
In Mbandaka, some realities cannot simply be explained — they must be lived. The forest is everywhere. It shapes the landscape, livelihoods, and the fragile balance that sustains daily life. And yet, this same forest is increasingly under threat.
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They couldn’t beat us in court. Now they want to change the law.
In August 2025, a Kenyan court handed down a landmark ruling. The government had sought to excise 51.64 hectares of Karura Forest to expand Kiambu Road. The Environment and Land Court said no, allowing only 0.1233 hectares, a fraction of what was requested. It was a victory for every Kenyan who has ever walked under…
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The $2.5 billion secret: what harm the world’s largest meat company is hiding in Nigeria
When we talk about the climate crisis, we know Shell's name well, from the Niger Delta to the Cape. "Fossil fuel giants have become synonymous with planetary destruction.
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International Day of Forests: Greenpeace Africa calls for accelerated reforms to secure community rights in Cameroon
Yaoundé, March 21, 2026 – On the occasion of the International Day of Forests, Greenpeace Africa organized a public mobilization in Yaoundé aimed at raising awareness about the protection of the Congo Basin forests and the rights of local communities.
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Karura is saved. Again. And that is the problem
On 21 February, chainsaw operators entered Karura. Trees fell. Heavy machinery moved in. Structures went up. All of it happened inside a protected forest, without consultation with Friends of Karura Forest