THE Coalition of non-governmental and civil society organisations in the Jasikan and Kadjebi Districts in the Volta Region have intensified efforts to check the rampant destruction of forests.
To this end, the coalition organised a six-day advocacy training workshop on natural resource and environmental governance aimed at raising awareness among the 11 community groups on sustainable forest management practices at Kadjebi.
The communities, which were represented by six participants each from the forest management committee, fire volunteers squad and school environmental clubs were drawn from Kadjebi, Wawaso, Guaman, Jasikan, Kudze, Atonkor, Worawora, Apesokubi, Akposo-Kabo, Asukwakwa and Katanga.
It was organised by the KASA-NREG project and sponsored by CARE International, an NGO.
Opening the workshop, the Co-ordinator of KASA-NREG project, Mr George Gyapong, said it was high time that people, including chiefs and their elders, assembly members and officials of the Forest Services Division were trained to ensure that forests were not destroyed indiscriminately.
Mr Gyapong lamented that the luscious forests from Worawora through Apesokubi, Kabuso to Asukwakwa were being depleted at a fast rate by the activities of chain saw operators.
He said it was time that those illegal chain saw operators were given the chance to participate in a round table discussion so that they would be recognised and their operations controlled.
“To allow a chain saw operator to operate unchecked in the bush is a danger to the community,” he said.
Topics treated at the workshop included fire prevention education, fire control management, sustainable forest management practices, including the control of illegal chain saw operations in the area and equitable distribution of income generated from forest management.
Facilitators were drawn from the Ghana National Fire Service and the Forest Services Division.
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