The Bawku Municipal branch of the Forestry Commission (FC) is undertaking a rescue mission to restore the dwindling forest resources of 1000 hectares of degraded landscape in both on-forest reserves and off-reserves in the Municipality and its environs this year.
The exercise is part of Government’s intervention to enhance environmental quality through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and its stakeholders, that is to restore and establish degraded Forest lands and incorporate trees on farmlands.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Bawku, Upper East Region, Mr Emmanuel Omane, the Bawku Forestry Manager, said heavy pressure on natural forest resources was high and the impact on rural livelihoods in the Bawku enclave unbearable.