The Daily IIJ

 By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya If the community people in the Number 2 River could have been whispered the way the Sierra Leone Police behave when they are executing their duties, some of them shouldn’t have ventured to even advised them to go through the village headman when they were on a mission to destroy a [...]

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya The community is quietly busy and most family heads are full with activities in relocating their homes while some carpenters are busy removing the rooftops of buildings for relocation to other environmentally friendly settlements.

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya Investigations has now proved it that if proper care is taken to preserve the Western Area Peninsular Forest Reserve, there can be potential ecotourism at this site which is facing extinction since the late 90s and tend of the civil war.

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Despite the tremendous efforts being done by the intethe power saw machines caught by forest guards at the forest reservernational community and spending millions of European currencies on livelihood and other related trainings for communities and people to desist forth from entering into

the power saw machines caught by forest guards at the forest reserve
the Western Area Peninsular Forest Reserve and its water shed, detractors on a daily basis are seeing these efforts as mere attempt of talking while they are persistently entering into the forest to carry out illegal activities such as brushing and logging of trees in the forest.

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Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya If all goes well as expected, the fishes and marine animals including the Manatee in the Yawri bay communities of Bumpe, Kagboro and Ribbi Chiefdoms in the Moyamba district Southern Sierra Leone will soon breathe a sigh of relief after the implementation a sustainable coastal zone management project that will ensure all [...]

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya As a result of a so-called independent report on the Addax bio-energy sugarcane to ethanol project in the Makeni region that was issued by the Bread for All in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF) and also the report of Standard Times environment urging the [...]

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya As issues of the environment are fast becoming topical and everyone’s concern, the journalists in Sierra Leone are vastly being equipped with the knowledge database to champion the course of environmental reporting in the country. recently, the Environment Protection Agency and environment partners like the United Nations Environment Programme.

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An independent study report on the Addax bio-energy project in Makeni by two renowned researchers from Ghana has shown that the company is seriously lacking in terms of addressing their commitment to the people and the way they handle the environment in their operational areas. It could be recalled that addax is operating in two chiefdoms in the Bombali District and the bio-energy is a division of the Swiss based energy corporation which is developing a Greenfield integrated agricultural and renewable energy project in Sierra Leone to produce fuel ethanol and electricity.

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Climate change or the unfriendly activities of human beings on earth and the environment may be the result of acute shortage of clean and safe drinking water in Sierra Leone and other parts of the continent, causing millions of people including children and women suffer on a daily basis. The situation of acute shortage of clean water has been experienced in the city and the provincial areas where less concentration is normally given to communities on the part of water and other social basic amenities. In Sierra Leone, the problems of acute shortage of clean and safe drinking water are not only occurring in the deprived communities in the provinces but those communities in the outskirt of the city as well.

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As a way of contributing to national environmental development and raising the awareness across the country, the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Alhajie Abubakarr Sidikie Samsumana on behalf of the government and the people of Sierra Leone planted the first tree to mark this year’s national tree planting day ceremony at the Moki Hills in Hamilton. The Vice President also took the opportunity to lay the foundation and laid the first pillar for the re-demarcation of the Western Are Peninsular Forest Reserve.

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