Thursday 18 May 2023

Would a citizen-science BioBlitz initiative help turn the Atewa Forest Reserve into a national park?

Perhaps a citizen-science BioBlitz, involving the youth of Akyem Osino, Akyem Saamang and Akyem Juaso, under the aegis of SYTO Ghana, A Rocha Ghana and Eco-Conscious Citizens Group, might finally help prod Jubilee House to get Ghana's President Akufo-Addo,  to declare the Atewa Forest Reserve (and the aboreal slopes off it), a national park, and ban all mining from it, at long last?

Surely that will make it possible for private sector entities from around the world, such as the airlines that fly in and out of Ghana, to buy carbon credits from there to neutralise their massive carbon footprints  - and help create a booming new green economic pillar there, for Akyem Abuakwa, and the rest of Ghana's Eastern Region?

As the biggest private freehold landowners in Akyem Juaso, my family would be happy to include the P. E. Thompson estate's Akyem Juaso 14-square mile freehold upland evergreen rainforest property, in any such citizen-science  BioBlitz initiative. Cool.

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