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Some seedlings of indigenous species. Rwanda is planning to plant more trees, of which 40 per cent must be indigenous species, in order to access the carbon market. COURTESY
Environment

Carbon trading: Indigenous trees to take up 40% of Rwanda’s forests

Monday, July 24, 2023
A view of Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) in Bugesera. The President of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Denis Sassou Nguesso will visit the campus on Saturday, July 22. COURTESY
Agriculture

President Nguesso to visit Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture

Friday, July 21, 2023
Jean Marie Vianney Kagenza, Team Leader of the Green Gicumbi project. Photos: Courtesy.
Featured

GCF-funded ‘Green Gicumbi’ to strengthen district’s climate resilience

Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Jean Marie Vianney Kagenza, Team Leader of the Green Gicumbi project.
Featured

FEATURED: GCF-funded ‘Green Gicumbi’ to strengthen district’s climate resilience

Monday, June 26, 2023
Minister for environment Jeanne d'arc Mujawamariya launching use of cooking gas in schools in Southern province. Courtesy
Rwanda

Rwanda pilots cooking gas in schools

Thursday, June 01, 2023
Rwandan Charles Karangwa to head IUCN global conservation solutions hub
Rwanda

Rwanda's Charles Karangwa to head global conservation solutions hub

Saturday, May 20, 2023
Grace Ineza Umuhoza, founder of the Green Protector. Photo: Courtesy.
Environment

One environmentalist’s drive to get youth to be climate actors

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Some waste that were dumped into former RWANDEX wetland in Kigali City. The City of Kigali has warned against polluters who are dumping waste into wetlands, rivers and drainages.
Environment

Wetland polluters in Kigali caught red-handed

Thursday, March 09, 2023
A wheat plantation at Green Gicumbi Project . Through this project, at least 12, 000 hectares of land are under erosion control (with both 600 hectares of Radical terraces and 600 hectares of progressive and radical terraces) over the past three years
Featured

PHOTOS: How Green Gicumbi Project is strengthening climate resilience in vulnerable communities

Monday, January 30, 2023
Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya, the Minister for Environment speaks at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal which was concluded on Monday, December 19, 2022. Courtesy
Environment

Rwanda welcomes global deal to save species from extinction

Tuesday, December 20, 2022
People during tree planting activities of the five tree species that are expected to restore land. Courtesy
Environment

Five indigenous tree species that face extinction

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Residents draw water in the degraded Rusizi River. Rwanda is set to restore the-now degraded Rusizi River Basin and the Great Rift Valley with $50 million fund pledged by the Bezos Earth Fund. File
Environment

COP27: Rwanda secures funding to restore degraded River Rusizi

Friday, November 11, 2022