Earth Day Ghana 2020 Video Contest
Earth Day Ghana 2020 Video Contest Submissions Accepted April 4 to April 14! April 22nd will mark 50 years of Earth Day and this year’s theme is Climate Action. As Ghana and other nations seek to combat the threat of coronavirus,...
Climate Information Training Helps Sierra Leone Better Tackle Climate Change
By Fatmata Katta For those charged with helping their countries both adapt to and combat climate change, understanding and being able to leverage climate information is critical. This is particularly true for Sierra Leone, recognized as the third most vulnerable...
WA BiCC and UNDP Scale Up Entertainment-Education Efforts to Increase Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Sierra Leone
By Darius Barrolle Radio dramas are a part of Sierra Leone’s rich culture; hence, it is no surprise that “Watasay Ston,” a new radio drama series and form of entertainment-education, has quickly emerged as one of the most popular in...
Sustainable Farming Method Brings New Hope for the Conservation of Gola Forest National Park
By Mark Dahn In Liberia, upland rice farming and shifting cultivation are practised by many rural farmers. The people of lower Sokpo Clan in Grand Cape Mount County near the Gola Forest National Park (GFNP) are known for practising this...
Liberia and Sierra Leone Reaffirm Commitment for the Conservation and Shared Management of Gola Forest
By Chaz Kyser Building on the governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia’s commitment to protect the Gola Transboundary Forest Landscape, officials representing the two West African countries gathered on February 18 at Liberia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia to...
ECOWAS Ministers Adopt Strategic Documents for a Cleaner, Sustainable Environment
By Adejumobi Adegbite Ministers representing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have adopted the revised Environmental Action Plan (EAP) and associated Monitoring & Evaluation Plan (MEP) of the ECOWAS Directorate of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), which were...
Sierra Leone Commemorates World Wetlands Day with Climate Change Adaptation Plan
By Fatmata Katta Sierra Leone marked this year’s World Wetlands Day celebration with the launch of its Climate Change Adaptation Plan (CCAP), a document that WA BiCC played a key role in developing. The CCAP sets the framework for an adaptation...
Mano River Union Member States Endorse Institution’s Five-Year Strategic Plan
By Fatmata Katta Delegates representing the four Mano River Union (MRU) countries—Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire—endorsed the sub-regional body’s five-year (2020–2025) Strategic Plan and Action Plan after a two-day deliberation to critically review both documents Feb. 4–5 in...
Newly Elected Co-Management Committee Pledge to Protect Sierra Leone’s Sherbro River Estuary
By Fatmata Katta Sierra Leone’s Sherbro River Estuary (SRE) is rich in biodiversity, including turtles, manatees, sharks and crocodiles. Designated as one of the country’s four marine protected areas, the region is also reported to host about 58% of Sierra...
CITES Master’s Graduates Chart a Path Toward Regional Collaboration
By Chaz Kyser, WA BICC Communications Manager The West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change Program (WA BiCC) organized a vibrant exchange on “Knowledge Products and Lessons from CITES Master’s Training and Research in West and Central Africa,” held in Accra...