A Rocha Ghana, an environmental conservation organization, and six other civil society organisations have filed an application at the High Court in Accra for an interlocutory injunction against the government to halt mining activities in the country's forest reserves.
The Plaintiffs/Applicants are A Rocha Ghana, Nature and Development Foundation, Civic Response, EcoConscious Citizens, Kasa Initiative Ghana, Tropenbos Ghana, and Ken Ashigbey (Convenor of the Media Coalition Against Galamsey).
The defendants are the Speaker of Parliament , the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation , the Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) , Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Minerals Commission, and Attorney-General.
In an affidavit in support and the write filed on September 17, 2024, the interlocutory injunction seeks among other things to prevent the issuance of any further permits or licenses under the disputed regulations allowing mining activities in forest reserves, restrain any person or entity holding such licenses from continuing or initiating mining activities in forest reserves and prevent the exercise of presidential powers to approve mining in globally significant biodiversity areas, pending the Court's final decision.