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