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Mr Asher Nkegbe, the Upper East Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has urged stakeholders in the mining sector to speak with one voice and ensure compliance to laid down regulations, to curtail problems. “Let’s us speak with one voice and once we are ensuring that the law…

Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have been urged to mainstream climate adaptation strategies into their medium-term development plans to help mitigate climate change effects and water crisis. WaterAid Ghana, a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) focused organisation, noted that challenges of climate change posed significant stress to livelihoods of…

Some hospitality facilities in the Upper East Region will face prosecution and closure for operating with expired operational permits, Mr Asher Nkegbe, Regional Director, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned. “Permits of some facilities expired as far back as 2018 and they are not renewing, and we are going to…

The Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP) would strategically empower communities to fight the challenges of climate change and restore degraded landscape and forest reserves. This will also ensure integrated forest, water and natural resources management to improve upon agriculture productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable communities. Ms…

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has started a project to restore degraded landscapes and forest reserves in West Africa. This is to promote sustainable agriculture activities and attain food security in some drought-prone countries in the sub-region. The initiative, dubbed: “Sahel Opportunity Project”, is being implemented by…

About 13 hectares of degraded lands at Takorayiri, a farming community in the West Mamprusi Municipality of the North East Region has been restored to provide protection to water bodies in the area. It also served as a buffer zone to the Kudani River, a tributary of the White Volta…

Mr Asher Nkegbe, the Upper East Regional Director, Environmental Protection Agency, says drought remains a major threat to livelihoods in Northern Ghana and underscored the urgent need for stakeholders to take steps to protect and conserve the environment to mitigate the challenge. “In the Northern part of Ghana, the drought…

A review and planning workshop towards the effective implementation of the $103million Ghana natural resources management and sustainable landscape restoration project has been held for stakeholders in the Northern part of Ghana. The event, which was held in the Upper Eat Regional capital, Bolgatanga, brought together Directors and officers from…