Climate Change & Energy
Green Ghana Day: 10 million trees to be planted on June 7 – Lands Minister
Source: 3news.com - June 4, 2024
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Kwaku
Green Ghana Day would have been a genuinely great initiative, if it wasn't for the fact that
a) we plant trees one day for the cameras and for the rest of the year we destroy trees in the forests, including forest reserves for the sake of unbridled mining, and cover almost every inch of plots with concrete in putting up houses, offices and apartment buildings in the towns and cities
b) the figures quoted for trees planted and their survival rate sound like nothing but fantastical media spin. How can we account for how many seedlings taken by individuals are actually planted, let alone how many survive? We have seen these seedlings piled up, unwanted in the compounds of Assemblies months after Green Ghana Day!
We wish Ghana a prosperous Green Ghana Day, though we won't be participating - we plant trees several times in the year, including digging up parts of as driveway to plant some shade trees three days ago!
June 5, 2024
Patrick Japheth Danso
Samuel Jinapor and his people should go and come again . What do they take serious and concerned Ghanaians for? We should use our prescious time to plant trees today for them to destroy moro for their personal gains and not think about the future generations. For me alone, nobody should and must not plant any tree for these unscrupulous leaders. But for our future generations, let's save our environment
June 5, 2024
Bright Bobby
The Scammers are on rampage again, borrowing and pretending to be planting tress with the hand whiles destroying forest reserves with Bulldozers.
June 5, 2024
Ghana Environmental Advocacy Group
We are demanding for the following: 1. The arrest and prosecution of high flyers involved in illegal mining. 2. A pause in Community Mining which in most cases is a legalised form of galamsey 2. The withdrawal of LI2462 which allows mining in forest reserves including globally significant biodiversity areas. 3. A public enquiry into Prof. Frimpong Boateng's report 4. The investigation and prosecution of the Directors of Akonta Mining for destroying parts of the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve.
June 5, 2024
Nana Kweku Andoh
How many of the trees that were planted last year are still alive. If this is to be a successful intervention then we should have serious monitoring and evaluation. This currently is just to tick boxes. Green Ghana day can have no meaning when the ancient forests that were not planted from small plastic bags are being destroyed. When govt changes our laws to allow mining in globally significant biodiversity sites then this is All a joke!
June 5, 2024
Stephanie
Aaah the continuing bandaid to a festering wound. our Forests and rivers are destroyed and we planet trees most of which we do not monitor and go to waste. Rescind LI2462 which allows mining in forest reserves including globally significant biodiversity areas.
June 5, 2024
aRV
Sad that he thinks anyone will actually believe these numbers.
They have been getting away with it for years, hence the bold claims that bear no resemblance to reality.
Sadly everything becomes a procurement game.
The environment suffers.
June 6, 2024
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