Gambia Launches $5.6 Million GEF -6 Land/Seascape Planning, Ecosystem Restoration Project
By Madiba Singhateh
The Gambia government together with the National Environment Agency (NEA) and Parks and Wildlife of The Gambia last Thursday launched a project totaling...
Gambia Launches National Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme Committee
By Ndey Sowe
The Department of Water Resources in collaboration with the Gambia National Commission for UNESCO with funding from UNESCO Multisectoral Office in Dakar,...
UNESCO-NATCOM Embarks on Massive Tree Planting Exercise
By Ndey Sowe
The National Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO-NATCOM) has on Saturday embarked on a massive tree planting exercise...
Environment Ministry Plants Over 6000 Seedlings at Dobbo Forestry Park
By Mustapha Jallow
The Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources has as part of yearly routine, embarked on tree planting exercise where over 6,000...
BAC Allocates Over D3.5 million to Mining Communities
By Mustapha Jallow
Officials of the Brikama Area Council (BAC) on Thursday handed over a cheque amounting to D3,568,525.00 (three million, five hundred and sixty-eight...
Finance Minister Attends Maiden Climate Vulnerable Finance Summit
By: Kebba AF Touray
The Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs virtually took part in the first Climate Vulnerable Finance Summit and V20 Ministerial Dialogue...
Windstorm destroys 106 compounds in Njawara
By Makutu Manneh
The heavy windstorm that occurred on Wednesday night has destroyed one hundred and six (106) compounds out of one hundred and eight...
Barrow Assesses Damage Caused by Windstorm
President Adama Barrow on Friday visited over 10 villages in the North Bank Region affected by Wednesday night’s storm to assess the damage and...
Framework for Smallholder Agriculture Program Validated
By Madiba Singhateh
Dawda Badjie, Deputy Director of the National Environment Agency (NEA) together with stakeholders, on Tuesday 6th June 2021 validated the Environment and...
Fire Outbreak Ravages Pipes of Golden Lead Fishmeal Factory
By Hatab Nyang
A fire outbreak at the dumpsite behind Golden Lead Fishmeal Factory in Gunjur Beach on the 1st July, 2021 had caught many...
Letter from Muhammed Ceesay, Project Manager, Activista/Gambia
On
CLIMATE CHANGE
A lethal product of Capitalism
Final Part
Scientific timelines on global temperatures indicate that, 2020, five years after the Paris Agreement, was one of the...
World Food Program Hands Over Four Automated Weather Stations to Government
By: Kebba AF Touray
The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) with funding from the European Union, on Wednesday 30th June 2021, handed over four...
COP26 Regional Ambassador to Engage Gambia on Mitigating Climate Change
By Nelson Manneh
Janet Rogan, the COP26 (Conference of the Parties) Regional Ambassador for West Africa, has on Thursday 24th June 2021 visited The Gambia where...
Ecosystem Restoration in The Gambia
With Madiba Singhateh
Welcome to another edition of the Environment and in this week’s Edition of the Column, we bring you a statement from Kemo...
Potable Water Remains A Challenge To Thousands Of URR Inhabitants
By Lamin Fatty, URR Correspondent
Thousands of inhabitants in the Upper River Region (URR) are still decrying the unabated challenge to access potable water on...
NUMEROUS FISH FOUND ON SANYANG BEACHES
In the midst of protein deficiency in our meals
By Hatab Nyang
A large quantity of fish have been found on the beaches of Sanyang this...
SEASONAL RAINFALL PREDICTION FOR JULY-AUGUST-SEPTEMBER (JAS) 2021&SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS FOR THE GAMBIA
with Madiba Singhateh
(Courtesy of the Department of Water Resources)
Welcome to another edition of the Environment Column and in this edition, we bring you the...
Weather Office forecasts ‘normal’ rainfall this year
The weather office has predicted ‘normal’ rainfall this coming rainy season over large areas of the country.
According to a statement issued by this office,...
Dive into Gambia’s Resilient Sea-grass Project
With Madiba Singhateh
Resilient Sea-grass is a project introduced in The Gambia and seven other neighboring countries in order to enhance and map out sea-grass...
Court Hands Over Confiscated Containers of Rosewood to the State
By Madiba Singhateh
Over 17 containers of rosewoods- banned timber species under the protection of International Trade in Endangered Spices of Wild Flora and Fauna...
