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The Mining-Restoration Blind Spot: Why Nobody's Mapping What Happens After Extraction
Green Angel Innovations | Insights South Africa's Council for Geoscience has, through its Derelict and Ownerless Mines Project, identified roughly 6,000 abandoned mines across the country. Not sites under rehabilitation. Not sites with a closure plan in motion. Abandoned — no current owner, no active remediation, no one legally on the hook for what happens to the land or the people living near it. Six thousand is not a rounding error. It is a landscape-scale gap, sitting in o
Dr Kofi Quartey
Jul 133 min read
Data Is Not Intelligence: Why Satellite Access Alone Won't Save African Land
Green Angel Innovations | Insights In 2025, teams working under the AFR100 Secretariat travelled across Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania to do something that sounds almost too basic to be the subject of a field mission: find out what was actually happening on the ground. AFR100 had, by then, mobilised 34 African governments to pledge the restoration of 130 million hectares of degraded land, well past the original target. That is a genuine achievement. But pledges are not
Dr Kofi Quartey
Jul 133 min read