Community Forest and Riparian Ecosystem (CFRE) Conservation and Livelihood Improvement in the upstream portion of the Black Volta River Basin (BVRB) of Ghana. This is a Rufford Foundation 1st Booster Grant of £10,000 (September 2020-October 2021) and supported by Lawra Forest Services Division, GreenWater Hut and Environment and Agroforestry Foundation. The project involved four communities belonging...
Within the month of May 2020 to July 2021 25000 seedlings comprising of Vitellaria, Khaya and Pterocarpus were raised and has been planted within the Black Volta Basin with the support of Kulmasa and Kuuri communities; Management of seedlings by Nursery Managers Watering of seedlings before transporting to the planting site The picture...
Since May 2021 to date, there has been continuous education in schools, during community gatherings, during religious gatherings, and the use of local radio on the need to reforest degraded forest areas where about 2000 community members have been reached. The picture was taken during education at Junior High School at Kulmasa The...
Reforestation of Black Volta Basin at Kuur and Kulmasa in Nadowli Kaleo District Assembly in Upper West and Savannah Region of Ghana, £5878 International Tree Foundation (ITF) Sustainable Community Forestry Program, supported by Lawra Forest Services and Wildlife Divisions and community members- May 2020 to April 2022. Contact person, Sam Peace, sam@internationaltreefoundation.org. The project has...
Promoting mercury management among artisanal miners and processing of plastic waste into fuel in the Black Volta Basin in collaboration with Greenwater Hut in Wakawaka, Banda Nkwanta, Jama September, Northern Region, 2017- February 2019, 5000 Ponds, United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) under the Small Grants program of the Global Environmental Facility (SGF-GEF), Amos Kabobah, amos.kaboba@uenr.edu.gh
Alternative to the use of mercury through Centrifuge and Vortexes with the aim of reducing the use of mercury in mining in collaboration with Langmaal Center for Rural Development Center (LACERD), 2017-2019 Northern Region, 5000 ponds, United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) under the Small Grants programme of the Global Environmental Facility (SGF-GEF), Francis Xavier Mwinkom,...
Promoting beekeeping as an incentive package to support the conservation of Community Forest and Riparian Forest among communities in the Black Volta River Basin, supported by Ghana-US Embassy (USD 7000)- November 2020 to December 2021. The project supported the beekeeping value chain as an incentive package for the management of the community forest and riparian...
Conservation of community forest fragments in the transitional zone of Ghana December 2017 to December 2018, Brong Ahafo and Northern Region of Ghana £5000, Rufford Small grant. Contact person, Jane Raymond (jane@rufford.org). The objective of the project was to promote the conservation of riparian forest and wildlife species and build the capacities of community members...
