Mr Augustine Kofi Gyedu, the Ashanti Regional Manager for the Forestry Commission has stated that about half of the region’s forest reserves are degraded.
According to him, the degraded forests are caused by human practices and to a large extent environmental factors.
Speaking at a presser ahead of the Green Ghana initiative on Friday, Kofi stated that, the region has sixty forests (60) reserves. However, about thirty of these reserves are completely degraded by human activities, such as illegal logging, and Galamsey among others. He said the reserves are mostly depleted by environmental factors like annual bushfires.
“The main causes of the degradation of our forests are Annual Bush fires caused by human, Fulani menace especially in the Boumfoum Forest reserve, Illegal chainsawing, Illegal mining and others.”
As per him, these forest reserves burn every year so, despite the forestry commission working assiduously to maintain them, the environmental factors are rather challenging.
Speaking on the Green Ghana Initiative, the Ashanti Regional Manager of the Forestry Commission stated that, his outfit is going to plant 4 million trees in the various degraded forest reserves on Friday.
“We’re going to plant 4 million trees in these degraded forest reserves in the Ashanti Region,” he stated.
Mr Kofi Gyedu has however asked the general public to make it a responsibility to be part of the Green Ghana Initiative to bring back the country’s lost vegetation.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com/Joseph Marfo
