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Groups Warn Against the Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Nigeria
Over 75 Civil Society Organizations from Nigeria, Africa and other countries in the world have condemned moves to open the way for the release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Nigeria. On Friday 6 June 2020, at a virtual meeting of the West African...
Eco-Instigator #28
By the time our 27th edition went to bed in February 2020, no one could have envisioned that the world would shortly thereafter go into a a dreadful lockdown. It has been a season of fears, panic and doubts. Fear of getting caught in the web of the coronavirus. Panic...
Stakeholders Propose Energy Alternatives for Africa
On the 22nd and 23rd June 2020, local and international CSOs / NGOs from Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Brazil, Philippines, Algeria, Kenya as well as from Nigeria, joined Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in a two-day virtual dialogue / School of Ecology on...
A Guide for Dialogue on Climate and Power Alternatives
Energy is one of the vital tools needed to fuel economic growth and development in any nation. Energy describes the work and heat available from all energy carriers, from the point of supply to consumption. The world energy carriers are divided into two categories:...
Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems Convergence: A Call for Establishment of Freshwater and Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Guinea and Congo Basin (Nigeria, DRC and Cameroon)
The virtual convergence/webinar on Freshwater and Marine ecosystems held on 8-9 June 2020 rose with a unanimous call for the creation of Freshwater and Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Guinea and the Congo Basin. The convergence or School of Ecology reviewed the...
The Need to Establish Fresh Water and Marine Protected Areas in Nigeria (Policy Paper)
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are important and powerful tools for biodiversity conservation and management of aquatic ecosystems and balanced cycles. Unfortunately, Nigeria has no formally established marine or fresh water protected areas and is not engaging in...
A Guide to Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring, Reporting, Organising & Advocacy
The marine ecosystem hosts about 80% of the world's biodiversity and also supports other lifeforms on land. We need clean and healthy creeks, rivers, lakes and oceans to support our own health and survival and we cannot afford to let corporations gamble with and...
World Environment Day 2020: HOMEF Calls for Collective Efforts to Protect Biodiversity
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has called for urgent and collective effort to protect and preserve biodiversity. The ecological think tank explains the importance of biodiversity, the threats to it and how it must be preserved, in a set of videos which have...
Right Livelihood Lecture (Webinar) 2020
Climate Change and Energy Alternatives Speaker René Ngongo (RLA 2009)Biologist, Environmentalist, Activist.Rapporteur, Economic and Social Council, DRC 19 June 2020, 11:00 WAT Host: Dr Gladys WorluAg. Director, Centre for Conflicts and Gender...
Blue Economy Blues – a new paper from HOMEF
The push for a Blue Economy is just not what it claims to be. It is rather a push for deriving of economic gains from our freshwater and marine ecosystems. It means a fundamental shift in the way streams, rivers, lakes and the oceans are perceived. The Blue...
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