Accra, June 18, GNA - Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister o Lands and Natural Resources on Friday announced plans by the Executive to increase the current revenue from game and wild life reserves of about $60,000 dollars to $1 million dollars.
Government also intends to raise the annual average visits to the Achimota Park from about 20,000 to about 100,000 within the next five years.
Alhaji Dauda said the phase one of the construction of a new Zoo in Accra has started at Achimota.
The Minister made this known in Parliament, in response to answers asked by Mr Francis Yaw Osei-Sarfo, Member of Parliament for Krachi West.
He said the Protection Area Development Programme, which started in 2005 with funding from the European Union for infrastructural development and general capacity building of the Ankasa and the Bia Conservation areas was on-going.
The programme is providing reception facilities and lodges for staff of the two tourist facilities while tender is opened for similar facilities the in Mole and Kakum National Park
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