KAKUM NATIONAL PARK, Ghana — This primeval forest in southern Ghana boasts 300 species of birds, unique monkeys and the highly endangered forest elephant and bongo antelope. But the only ...

Around 7.6 million hectares are primary or naturally regenerated forest, and around 297,000 hectares are planted forest. In 2022, Ghana lost 18,000 hectares of primary forest, a nearly 70% ...

This primeval forest in southern Ghana boasts 300 species of birds, unique monkeys and the highly endangered forest elephant and bongo antelope. But the only wildlife I saw was one very long worm ...

A Christian conservation group is fighting the Ghana government in court over plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve. The protected highland forest north of the capital, Accra, is ...

Ghana lost 33.7% of its forest cover, or around 2,508,000 hectares same period. The living forest biomass in Ghana's forests contains 381 million metric tons of carbon.

Mining licences will be granted to the world's largest gold miner, Newmont, and Ghana's Ashanti, Australia's Red Back and Canada's Nevsun Resources. Newmont plans to invest $450m in two gold mines - ...

FoE-Ghana also expressed concerns over the role of the China Development Bank in the proposed bauxite mining in the Atewa forest, which they believe the bank is contradicting its own green ...