Forests: Connecting People to Nature
FOREST TOWN HALL RESOLUTIONS: What Nature has connected, let no person or government put asunder Health of Mother Earth Foundation held a Forest Town Hall Meeting on Monday – June 5, 2017 in commemoration of World Enviro…
Unpacking Re-Source Democracy
Interrogating Re-Source Democracy. Progress has been measured by how much humans are able to transform Nature and increasingly this has been seen to be directly related to how exploitative of Nature and how…
Resilience, Resistance
Building a Resilient and Ecologically Engaged Citizenry. Cross River State is generally seen as a green state, with some of the last tracts of pristine rain forests – some of which have been preserved through community f…
Women, Re-sources, Peace and Matters Arising
Although women are rarely those that trigger wars and the arms race, they are often the victims and bear the brunt of the harms that occur during the conflicts. Each International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarma…
In the Shadows of the Future (Poem)
In the Shadows of the Future In a hide-away in Rustlers Valley Lodged where the EarthRises to meet the mountains Drawn by the call of caves and waterfalls Enraptured by the pull of ancestral footsteps Sucked into the sil…
Biosafety is No Gamble
Biosafety is No Gamble: Dead people cannot speak against judicial or other decisions. Likewise, Dead people cannot be compensated if their demise was triggered by some poison they unknowingly ingested. These and several …
Eco-Instigator #15 : Promoting Biosafety in Nigeria
The heat is on, as the saying goes. As the forces of environmental harm increase the heat on the planet, ecological defenders are stepping up on mobilisations and vigorously standing up for justice. One key trending envi…
What We Eat (must not eat us)
What We Eat (must not eat us): The key myths by which citizens are sold the idea of GMOs as being desirable include that they provide the most assured way of feeding the burgeoning population of hungry mouths in the worl…
NOT ON OUR PLATES! Nigeria does not need GM food
Nigeria does not need GM crops to satisfy its food and agriculture needs. We know exactly what we have to do and the Nigerian National Conference[i] of 2014 raised the caution with regard to then draft National Biosafety…
Biotechnology, ‘Scientists’, ‘Experts’, Government Agencies and Patriotism
Biotechnology, ‘Scientists’, ‘Experts’, Government Agencies and Patriotism. Generally, when we speak of patriotism we evoke a sense of ‘nationalism’ and ‘loyalty’ to one’s nation or group. From the perspective of some co…
Standing up for the Trees!
Communities stand up for the trees! Communities are best placed to monitor their forests because they live in the forests, depend on forest resources and readily notice threat and changes that occur in such forests. When…
NIREC and the trouble with Nigeria’s GMO Twins
NIREC and the trouble with Nigeria’s GMO Twins: Recently there was a news report that the National Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) cautioned the Nigerian government with regard to permitting Genetically Modified Organism…
System Change Will Not be Negotiated
System Change will not be Negotiated[1] — We frequently hear calls for system change at public mobilisations, in conference halls and even in negotiation halls. The calls come as slogans, they come in anger and the…
As Soot Blankets Port Harcourt
Dark clouds over Port Harcourt. The air in parts of Port Harcourt has been darkened by soot over the past few months, raising a cloud of concerns about the attendant health impacts. Citizens in parts of Port Harco…
Eco-Instigator #14
The year 2016 ran through so rapidly. And just as well. It had a store of horrors – extreme exploitation of nature’s re-sources, wars and repression, massive pollution, deforestation and unconscionable climate inac…
