66,000 Rare Trees Replanted in Ghana's Atewa Forest, and the Mining Rules That Threatened It Repealed

Atewa Range Forest Reserve is one of only two Upland Evergreen Forests left in Ghana, and about 40% of its tree species are threatened or near-threatened. A Rocha Ghana, which works on forests, freshwater and creation care including its Eco Church programme, led a three-year restoration project with CSIR-PGRRI that restored more than 66,000 threatened tree seedlings and recorded plant species that may be new to science (reported 22 June 2026). The group also took a leading role in the legal and public campaign against Ghana's L.I. 2462, a regulation that would have opened forest reserves to mining; it was repealed in December 2025. Its newsroom is still active in October 2026, with statements on Atewa forest destruction and mining-community rights.