Saving forests through community reforestation

Ghana's forest areas have over the years being under the threat of illegal chainsaw activities.

But a new reforestation initiative has shown a high potential to be an alternative and legal source of livelihood and income generation to erstwhile illegal chainsaw operators and lumber carriers.

The pilot plantation development project is happening in some forest districts in the Ashanti, Central and Eastern regions.

Kofi Adu Domfeh visited one of the project communities and filed this report.

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