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The logging audit that spells disaster for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its donors
Kinshasa, 1 April 2022: After three months of pressure from Greenpeace Africa, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally backed down: it realized it was no longer possible not to publish an explosive 2020 audit by the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) slamming the “culpable laxism” of the Environment Ministry and the…
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400,000 hectares of forest under threat in Cameroon: local communities are enraged, Greenpeace and its partners indignant.
The Ministry of Forests and Wildlife wants to allocate nearly 400,000 hectares of forest to logging concessions according to a decree made public in December 2021. Greenpeace Africa and its partners Green Development Advocates (GDA) and Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD) see such a decision as one of the too many threats…
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Greenpeace Africa reacts to scientific report on wildfires projecting an infernal 21st century
A UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report projects a 50 per cent global increase in wildfires by 2100. Greenpeace Africa is calling on governments to boost their preparedness and protect the continent’s rainforests ahead of an infernal century.
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Camvert: A blow to the Cameroonian economy
Camvert SA. is benefiting from tax exemptions in the implementation of its 60,000 hectare palm plantation project in Campo and Niete, a decision which shows how empty and unfounded Al Fatih's promises to destroy the forest to support the economy are.
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Greenpeace Africa calls on new African Union chair, Senegal’s President Macky Sall, to make 2022 the year of pan-African climate action
Dakar, February 11, 2022 – At the start of his one-year term as President of the African Union, Senegalese President Macky Sall must seize the opportunity to unify the continent…
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In the Ebo forest, the Oscars isn’t Dicaprio’s
This opinion piece was originally published on Al Jazeera
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Congo forests: Indigenous communities at the heart of the process
Either we make tropical forests the giant carbon sink that will help save the planet, or we destroy them and release the estimated 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide from these forests and, hello...climate bomb!
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CAMVERT: A recurring nightmare
This illegal project is harmful to the people, to the forest, to biodiversity, to the climate - and to good governance. It only benefits a very small circle of people, including its promoter
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Tradelink affair: Greenpeace Africa denounces the lies and attempts at intimidation by the Ministry of Environment
Kinshasa, 5 November 2021 – Greenpeace Africa is outraged by the lack of professionalism and attempts at intimidation from the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) in reaction to…
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Greenpeace Africa hands over a petition against the lifting of the moratorium with more than 100,000 signatories to the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Greenpeace Africa, together with its partners “Rainforest rescue, Femme Environnement Nature Entrepreunariat Vert (FENEV), Rainforest UK and Save The Green World”, have succeeded in collecting more than 100,000 signatories from all over the world