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On Mazingira Day, in Kenya, let’s get one thing straight: planting saplings while bulldozing intact forests isn’t conse...
10/10/2026

On Mazingira Day, in Kenya, let’s get one thing straight: planting saplings while bulldozing intact forests isn’t conservation. IT IS GREENWASHING.

You can plant 15 billion trees, but you cannot replace a centuries-old ecosystem, a critical water tower, or an elephant nursery in Upper Imenti.

Earlier this week, we took over 60,000 petition signatures to the Ministry of Environment, because real environmental action isn't just a photo-op once a year. It’s stopping illegal development on Ngong Road and Imenti TODAY.

Old-growth forests act as giant, living sponges. Centuries of accumulated leaf litter, moss, and deep root networks absorb torrential rains, filter water, and release it steadily into rivers during droughts. A newly planted tree plot lacks the soil structure to absorb water, leading to soil erosion, flash floods, and dry riverbeds downstream. Destroying intact ecosystems will also turn critical climate protectors into massive drivers of climate disruption!

09/10/2026

🚨 ALERT: MAURITIUS 🇲🇺
A 150-year-old banyan tree was just saved from total destruction in Rivière-Noire because citizens put their bodies on the line.

After a first centenarian tree was chopped down for a real estate project in La Preneuse, activist Percy Yip Tong and resident Joséphine Piat chained themselves to the second threatened banyan. Their bravery worked: the developer backed down and pledged to preserve the standing tree!

But the price of resistance is heavy. For protecting a tree from destruction, Percy Yip Tong is appearing in court today, Friday, October 9, facing a provisional charge of “Rogue and Vagabond.” Protecting nature is not a crime!

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SENEGAL’S COASTAL COMMUNITIES IN DANGER.New threats follow one another, without respite.Industrial fishing, fishmeal fac...
09/10/2026

SENEGAL’S COASTAL COMMUNITIES IN DANGER.
New threats follow one another, without respite.

Industrial fishing, fishmeal factories, restricted fishing zones, oil and gas: pressures are mounting.
How far will things have to go before action is taken?

👉 Sign the petition now to protect our coasts! https://act.gp/4j7jzpn

08/10/2026

For millions of discarded garments, the answer is Accra, Ghana.

Every single week, 15 million second hand garments arrive at Accra’s Kantamanto market.

Shockingly, up to 40% of this influx is low-quality, unsellable waste turning local beaches, lagoons, and landfills into global dumping sites for fast fashion.

Artists recently used thousands of tons of this textile waste to spotlight the staggering scale of global overconsumption.

While art is a powerful tool for raising awareness, artists should not be responsible for cleaning up a systemic crisis driven by corporate greed.

🛑 Accra cannot be the world's dumping ground. Share this video, tag the brands you wear, and demand policy change before our coastline vanishes under clothes

08/10/2026

What should be pristine shores along Accra’s coast, including popular areas where local communities and beachgoers gather, are increasingly choked with mountains of foreign waste and fast-fashion cast-offs.

A clean-up exercise organised by Greenpeace Africa and its local partners exposed the severity of the waste burden on this beach, highlighting the direct environmental impact of these discarded items.

This isn't just a local litter problem; it is waste colonialism in action. Our beaches are not the world’s dumping ground. It’s time to hold major consumer nations and fast-fashion giants accountable for the full lifecycle of their products.

Real climate justice means stopping waste at the source and supporting local-led environmental remediation.

08/10/2026

Floods don’t wait for countries to pay off their debt.

From Bangkok to communities across Africa, climate disasters are destroying homes, livelihoods and infrastructure, while countries are pushed to borrow more just to recover.

Meanwhile, extreme wealth keeps growing, and the richest continue to pollute at disproportionate levels.

As the IMF and World Bank meet in Bangkok, the question is simple: why should countries keep borrowing to survive a climate crisis they did the least to cause?

Tax the super-rich. Fund a future where people and the planet come first. 👉 https://act.gp/4rZlgYw

07/10/2026

Up to half a million items of clothing waste from Kantamanto
Market end up in open spaces and informal dumpsites along the shores of Shatta Beach in Accra.

A clean-up exercise by Greenpeace Africa and its partners in Accra confirmed that unwearable and poor-quality garments exported to Ghana as used clothes litter this beach, polluting local marine systems.

Fishermen are hauling textiles in their nets instead of fish. This is where Europe’s “dead waste” ends up.

The government must stop Ghana from becoming Europe’s textile waste dump.

07/10/2026

This is the state of Shatta Beach in Accra, Ghana.

For far too long, the West has exported its waste to Africa.
Brands and regulators in the Global North MUST be legally responsible for all emissions and waste across
the life cycle of the clothing they produce.

It's time for responsible fashion. Waste colonialism must end!

06/10/2026

We just handed over 60,000 signatures straight to the Ministry of Environment.

Don't let them fool you this Mazingira Day with sapling photo-ops while bulldozers tear down intact forests behind closed doors. Newly planted trees CANNOT replace an ancient ecosystem.

We forced U-turns in Imenti and stopped construction in Karura. Citizen action works. Now Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa must issue binding legal cancellations for ALL commercial projects in our protected forests.

Will you accept photo-ops, or demand real protection?

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