General News of Tuesday, 23 December 2025Source: thebftonline.comEnvironmental Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in a presser have revealed that the revoked Legislative Instrument (L.I) 2472 exposed up to 89 percent of the country’s forest reserves to mining. L.I 2462 is the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulation, 2022. It was a Ghanaian law passed on 23rd June, 2022, that permitted mining in forest reserves, if authorization is giving by the president. Forest reserves, including Globally Significant Biodiversity Areas, were opened to large-scale mining activities,” they stressed. However, they have warned that threats to forests still persist and called on government to take further actions, including the review of Act 703 to explicitly ban mining in mining forest reserves.

Source: GhanaWeb December 23, 2025 15:39 UTC