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Ghana's Progress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

E. O. A. Asibey
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In Ghana wildlife is valued especially as a source of meat. But overhunting has led to serious depletion of nearly all game species, in some cases almost to the point of extermination. However, the Government is now concerned that the country's wildlife should be conserved and used on a sustained yield basis, and recently new national parks have been created, existing reserves enlarged and government spending on wildlife substantially increased. The author, who is head of the Wildlife Department and FPS correspondent in Ghana, describes the difficulties of making conservation effective in a country where ignorance about wildlife, other than its value for the pot, is the rule.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 11 , Issue 6 , September 1972 , pp. 470 - 475
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1972

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