Ghana's Forest Wildlife in Danger
- 1 May 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Oryx
- Vol. 10 (4) , 240-243
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300008516
Abstract
Timber operators building access roads open up the forest in Western Ghana and make it easy for farmer-settlers to come in. The roads also enable them to get their produce to the towns to sell, and thus the farms become profitable and expand, and the wildlife disappears. At the same time the slaughter of wildlife in the forest reserves (its only refuge) is severe and continual, largely because meat is scarce. The author pleads for some forest reserves to be made game reserves as well so as to protect the forest wildlife.Keywords
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