The Upper East Regional Forestry Manager Emmanuel Yeboah has revealed that the Bawku area is a flash point in the region when it comes to wildfire or if you like bush burning. According to Mr. Yeboah, Upper East Region has 3 forest districts Bawku forest district, Bolga forest district, and Navrongo forest district. He said these three districts cover all the 15 political districts in the region. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Mr. Yeboah pointed out that as a result of the ongoing conflict in the Bawku Municipality, it makes Bawku a flash point when it comes to wildfire. He said: “Our people are even finding it difficult to do their normal work. If you are in the Pusiga area, Garu, you have no problem but if you are from Bawku Municipality going out, is a problem. So, because of these conflicts, disorganizes them. Even in Bolga district some area like Anateem there has been incidents of fire too but not much. Mr. Yeboah told Apexnewsgh.com Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com
UER: Farmers advised to maintain some presence in their farm
The Regional Wildlife Manager of the Ghana Forestry Commission responsible for the five regions of the North Joseph Kwasi Binlinla, has advised farmers within the two main Western and Eastern corridors to maintain some presence in their farms as enter into their yearly farming activities. Apexnewsgh.com report The Regional Manager gave the advice when Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com contacted him on Monday to find out his office preparation ahead of the yearly elephant destruction of crops in some farmlands within the Eastern and Western corridor of the forest reserved. Meanwhile, explaining some of their activities, Mr. Binlinla said: “One of the things we have been doing is to teach farmers what to do to protect their farms and there are some basic things, for instance, farmers just tying a rope around the farm will scare elephant away from the farm and there are testimonies of farmers who have done that over the years and have successfully harvested their crops”. He advised that farmers maintaining a presence on their farms when their crops are getting ready will scare the elephants away from coming near their farms. Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication, please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Farmers evading into the forest reserve make elephants uncomfortable–Regional Wildlife Manager
The Regional Wildlife Manager of the Ghana Forestry Commission responsible for the five regions of the North Joseph Kwasi Binlinla has said, the elephants in the forest can longer freely move through their original root because, in recent times, farmers turn into going to the forest reserves to do whatever they want such as burning charcoal, fell trees, harvest firewood, do galamsey and all other things one can think of. Apexnewsgh.com report The Regional Manager made the revelation when Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com contacted him on Monday to find out about his office preparation ahead of the yearly elephant destruction of crops in some farmlands within the Eastern and Western corridor of the forest reserved. He said: “People in the past have lived with these animals someway somehow peacefully until the recent years that we have started experiencing some kind of conflict existing within the people within the area and the elephants in particular, as for the other smaller animals we don’t hear so much of them these days. The elephants that have been in existence in the area called the Eastern Wildlife Corridor are the Savanna Elephants and I must also say that the area we called the Eastern Wildlife Corridor also has some forest reserves that have been gazetted by the government and are supposed to also serve as an abode for these elephants”. “So, the conflict has been escalating why? Because people have increased, the population over the years has increased. Of course, the animal would have also multiplied because they also filtrate. So, what we are doing is to strike a balance, in as much as people are very important, we think that animals are also important”. He explained According to the Regional Manager, they cannot do away with animals, stressing that we have to try to live with them peacefully so that they will continue to do whatever good thing God has endowed them to do for their survival and for the ecological functioning of ecosystems. Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana For publication please kindly contact 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Sissala- Kassena- Fraah and Bulkawe CREMA inaugurated in the Western Wildlife Corridors
The Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission has inaugurated the Sissala- Kassena- Fraah Community Resource Management Area, (CREMA) in Tumu and the Bulkawe Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) in Sandema to manage the forest and wildlife resources of the area. In line with Section 1(1) of the Wild Animal Preservation Act 43 of 1961, the inauguration will empower landowners, land users, and the communities to sustainably manage and benefit economically from the natural resources of the area. Speaking at one of the inauguration ceremonies at Sandema, the Executive Director of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission in a speech read on his behalf by the Operation Manager of Protected Area, Umaru Dubiru Farouk indicated that in order to address the decline in wildlife resources, a Community and Collaborative Wildlife Management Policy was developed by the Wildlife Division in 2000. The Executive Director urged the Committee to work with the local government to support it with full political backing adding the committee has a great potential to mediate a balance between conservation and development. On his part the Manager of the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission in charge of the Upper East, Upper West and Northern Belt, Joseph Binlinla disclosed that under the Sustainable Land and Water Management Project (SLWMP), the Forestry Commission through the Wildlife Division was establishing the CREMA in the Western Wildlife Corridors. He added that Bulkawe as one of the six CREMAs comprising fifteen (15) constituent Communities including Wupensa, Yipala, Deninga, Siniensi, Banchongsa, Kanderma, Kalijisa, Balansa, Nakong, Katiu, Doborinsa, Kari, Namonsa, Chiana and Kardema. Mr. Bilinla indicated that the operational area covers over one hundred and forty four thousand hectares Guinea Savannah Vegetation. Mr. Binlinla noted that a CREMA constitution had been prepared by communities and passed by the General Assembly and subsequently published in the Government Bulletin by the Government Publisher, in accordance with the local Government Act 462 of 1993. Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/ Contributor Prosper Adaankai Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications.









