The Regional Manager has, therefore, extended warmth invitation to Traditional Authorities in the nine political districts along the eastern wildlife corridors to collaborate with the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission to prevail on the government to establish an ecological park to rake in revenue for the development of their communities. Speaking in an interview, he further indicated that under the cooperative agreement signed between the Government of Ghana and the Government of Burkina Faso as well as best practice in the world of conservation the wild animals needs to be conserved and the only way out is to turn the menace of the elephants into economic gains. He maintained that the six gazetted forest reserves in the corridor spanning Bawku, Bawku West, Binduri, Tempane, Zebilla, Nabdam, Talensi provides the ideal condition for foliage and reproduction hence the need to create space for them to co-exist with humans. Mr. Binlinla revealed that under the Sustainable Land and Water Management Project, the Forestry Commission through the Wildlife Division conducted a study dubbed the Northern Savannah Biodiversity Conservation Project funded by the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank from 2002-2008. The research looked into the pattern of movement of wild animals and identified specific routes called corridors in Northern Ghana namely the Eastern Wildlife Corridor and the Western Wildlife Corridor. On the Eastern Wildlife corridor, the wildlife migrates from the Kaborentenba National Park in Burkina Faso through to the Upper East to the North-Eastern parts of the northern region stretching into Red Volta Valley far east into Forer’ d’e au olione in Togo. For the Western Wildlife Corridor, the wildlife moves from the Nasinga Game Ranch in Southern Burkina Faso to cross the border through the Upper West to the Mole National Park in the Savannah Region. Speaking in an interview, he observed the presence of the African Elephants can serve as a magnet to attract tourists to boost the local economy while conserving the elephants from going extinct. Apexnewsgh.com/ Ghana/ Prosper Adankai Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications    

The Regional Manager of the Ghana Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission in charge of Upper East, Upper West, and northern Belt, Joseph Binlinla has cautioned farmers, small scale miners, and charcoal Burners to stay away from encroaching in Government gazette forest reserves as those illegal acts limit the natural habitats of the wildlife and result in the human-wildlife conflict with resultant negative consequences on humans and farm produces. Speaking in an interview Mr. Binlinla observed that it seemingly appears as if wildlife especially elephant and human conflicts is escalating due to human population overlapping with well-established wildlife territory arguing that before recorded history, there have been wildlife migrations of Elephants and other wildlife including the Angulis, the Dyketes, and snakes. He expressed concern that as a result of population explosion, more land has been put under cultivation in order to feed attributing the encroachment of man into the areas, hitherto known by these wild animals as their preserve long before the settlement of man in those vicinities to the annual destructions by the animals in those particular domains over the years. While assuring the farmers that measures are being taken by the Wildlife Division to manage the situation for peaceful co-existence. To manage the elephant human conflict Mr. Binlina prevailed on them to adopt crop breeding techniques to go about their farming activities peacefully adding that the relative peace in Ghana makes the country a suitable habitat for the elephants accounting for their high presence in the eastern corridor. The importance of the presence of the African elephants to the ecosystem cannot be overemphasized as they maintain the biodiversity by creating space for smaller animals to feed and have access to water during the dry season, with their high sense of smell they use their trunks to dig out sources of water. They helping in tree dispersal particularly with the Odum tree, the seed needs to pass through the guts of the elephant before it can germinate and grow to become a habitable tree. In some cultures in Ghana, the tail of an elephant is used as paraphernalia for warriors, on the staff of linguists to signal authority with the ivories used as ornaments. Apexnewsgh.com/ Ghana/ Prosper Adankai Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your credible news publications