Ghana

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer Last week, we arranged a community mangrove planting day in one of our project areas, in the village of Fiaxor in Ghana’s Keta lagoon area. We collected our seedlings from our partner, the Anloga division of the Forestry Commission, and transported them to Fiaxor the night before […]

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer For the last two weeks most of our team were together, in Ghana, during which time we started some exciting new phases of our project. Again, we had the pleasure of receiving a visit, and support, from Regenerative Resources CEO, Neal Spackman. It’s been 2 months since

By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Project Coordinator (Africa) In Ghana we have some pretty ambitious plans to plant millions of mangroves across coastlines in the coastal regions over the next few years and it all starts with a few seeds. When it comes to environmental degradation, there is a significant negative-feedback loop which must be

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer The coastal ecosystem in Ghana is at risk of flooding and coastal erosion, other threats are overexploitation of natural resources, as well as marine pollution and illegal sand mining. Furthermore, rapid urbanisation and human settlements are stressing the coastal ecosystem and accelerating land degradation. The coastline of

By Raphael Yao Ahiakpe, Seawater Solutions Technical Projects Manager (Africa) From using salinized soils to grow salt tolerant crops and vegetables to wetlands bioremediations, the team at Seawater Solutions finds pleasure in providing sustainable solutions to some of the World’s pressing challenges associated with food security and climate change. The latter is of much concern

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Chief Strategy Officer We are very happy that the rainy season started in Ghana. Now, we have had the chance to continue with our mangrove planting activities. In the dry season, which is also the longest season, the soil dries up and becomes highly saline, it presents harsh conditions for

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Programme Officer We believe that conservation and reforestation of ecosystems and rural development are a catalyst for each other. Integrating community members and local stakeholders are key for a successful and sustainable project, including factors such as knowledge transfer and empowerment. While including locals in the process of our projects,

By Raphael Yao Ahiakpe, Seawater Solutions Technical Projects Manager (Africa) It is not uncommon to hear the prominent potential aquaculture holds in filling the protein gap created as a result of demands from increasing human population and decreasing catches from fisheries in most parts of the World. However, sustainability of conventional aquaculture operations remains a

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Programme Officer It’s getting crowded in our mangrove nursery! Right now we are the home to around 1400 red and white mangrove seedlings. The seedlings we installed in our nursery 3 weeks ago are germinating and growing. As you can see in the pictures it’s a very interesting transformation from

By Joella Korczak, Seawater Solutions Programme Officer A key area of our Ghana operations is mangrove forestry. Mangroves play an extremely important role in tropical environments and social and economic development within them, producing a number of impressive benefits locally: they improve water quality; prevent erosion and protect coastlines by acting as natural sea defences;