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27.07.2005 General News

75% of Ghana’s Forests Gone

By Times
75 of Ghanas Forests Gone
27.07.2005 LISTEN

Ghana has lost over 75 per cent of her forest cover in the last few decades with an unprecedented pressure on the fast diminishing forest and other natural resources, Christine Churcher, minister for environment and science, has said.

Addressing a two-day capacity building seminar held at Agona Swedru for members of the parliamentary select committee on environment, science and technology, Ms Churcher said that the country lost over 2 million cedis annually through environmental degradation of various forms, especially the illegal felling of trees and mining.

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