Eco-Conscious Citizens — environmental advocacy organization campaigning against galamsey (illegal mining) in Ghana, calling for emergency declarations and prosecution of influential actors.
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Joy Online
… Ghana’s anti-galamsey movement has been driven by activists and civil society groups, including Awula Serwah, The Multimedia Group’s Erastus Asare Donkor, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Eco-Conscious Citizens, Democracy Hub, the Fix The Country Movement and the Ghana Youth Environmental …
Galamsey is no longer hidden: Where is the enforcement?The Chronicle
… The groups, convening under the Citizens’ Platform on Constitutional Reform (CPCR) and including the Centre for Democratic Development, One Ghana Movement, A Rocha Ghana, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF Ghana), Eco-Conscious Citizens, the Youth Alliance for Green G …
CSOs Back CRC’s Environmental Reforms, Press Government for RoadmapThe Chronicle
… In a statement issued on May 27, 2026, Eco-Conscious Citizens, Environmental Campaigners, and the Atronsu Youth & Farmers Against Illegal and Small Scale Mining Association expressed concern that the reassignment could undermine gains made by the National Anti-Illegal Mining Oper …
Reconsider Col. Buah’s Transfer – Anti-Galamsey Groups Appeal To MahamaAwula Serwah, Executive Director of Eco-Conscious Citizens, says Ghanaians are not expressing enough anger about illegal mining's destruction and must organize peaceful civic action and demonstrations to compel political leaders to take decisive steps against galamsey.
20 hours ago · Joy Online →
Awula Serwah, Executive Director of Eco-Conscious Citizens, says Ghanaians are not expressing enough anger about illegal mining's destruction and must organize peaceful civic action and demonstrations to compel political leaders to take decisive steps against galamsey.
20 hours ago · Joy Online →
Executive Director of Eco-Conscious Citizens Awula Serwah has called on the government to declare a targeted state of emergency in areas affected by illegal mining (galamsey) to protect water bodies, farmlands and forest reserves, urging immediate removal of miners and deployment of response teams with community involvement.
20 hours ago · Joy Online →
Awula Serwah, Executive Director of Eco-Conscious Citizens, says all necessary discussion about illegal mining has occurred and Ghana now needs decisive action rather than further debate. She called for stronger public mobilisation and peaceful activities to pressure political leaders to tackle the environmental destruction caused by galamsey.
21 hours ago · Joy Online →
Eco-Conscious Citizens Executive Director Awula Serwah questioned why Ghana continues to struggle containing illegal mining despite having an armed forces capable of supporting law enforcement, arguing that decisive political will from chiefs, political authority, and police commanders is needed to halt the practice.
21 hours ago · Joy Online →
Awula Serwah, Executive Director of Eco-Conscious Citizens, has urged President Mahama to publicly reaffirm legal mining requirements, warning that recent comments by Ghana Gold Board CEO risk signalling to small-scale miners that they can operate without proper licensing. She cautioned that such signals could undermine anti-illegal mining efforts and stressed that mining licences are essential alongside other regulatory approvals to prevent pollution and environmental destruction.
27 October 2026 · Joy Online →
The Executive Director of Eco-conscious Citizens has called on the government to declare a state of emergency in illegal mining areas, citing threats to water bodies and public health. She warned that pollution of the Atewa Forest Reserve, which supplies drinking water to more than five million Ghanaians, poses serious environmental risks and urged the reserve's declaration as a national park for greater protection.
18 August 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →
On the first anniversary of an August 6 helicopter crash that killed eight people, Awula Serwah, coordinator of Eco-Conscious Citizens, called for decisive action against illegal mining, describing it as an "ongoing ecocide" and arguing that Ghana owes it to all who have died from the practice—including children in mining pits, mothers from mercury poisoning, and police officers drowned pursuing miners.
6 August 2026 · Joy Online →
NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako has been convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegal mining. Environmental activist Awula Serwah welcomed the conviction as a milestone in Ghana's fight against illegal mining and called on authorities to expand investigations and prosecute other influential figures involved in environmental destruction.
20 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Eco-Conscious Citizens coordinator Awula Serwah has praised the revocation of Executive Instrument 144, which restores the Achimota Forest Reserve to full protected status, but calls for government to prosecute powerful individuals and politically exposed persons behind illegal mining rather than focusing only on small-scale operators.
15 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Environmental advocacy organisations have called on the government to elevate the Atewa Forest Reserve to national park status, warning that degradation of the forest threatens water security, biodiversity and climate resilience. The Atewa Forest Reserve serves as the source of rivers that supply water to more than five million people and is being pressured by ongoing environmental degradation.
3 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Illegal miners in Ghana are openly promoting their activities on social media platforms like TikTok and Facebook, suggesting a belief that law enforcement is absent or unwilling to act. The article links this public flouting of the law to environmental destruction and recent flooding in the Western Region.
23 June 2026 · Joy Online →
A coalition of civil society organisations has backed the Constitution Review Committee's environmental reform proposals, which include entrenching a public trust doctrine vesting minerals, water resources, and public lands in the people of Ghana with the State holding them in trust. The groups are pressing government to publish a clear roadmap and timelines for the constitutional reform process amid Ghana's worsening illegal mining crisis.
23 June 2026 · The Chronicle →
Environmental campaigners and youth groups have appealed to President Mahama to reconsider the reported reassignment of Col. Dominic Buah, Director of Operations at the National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat, arguing the move would undermine anti-galamsey efforts and reflect waning government commitment to combating illegal mining.
29 May 2026 · The Chronicle →