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18 January 2016 Ghana

Artisanal millers implore Ghana government for timber concessions to supply legal lumber to domestic market

Artisanal millers who have been trained to use legal equipment in wood processing have appealed to the Government of Ghana to grant them access to timber concessions to enable them produce legal lumber for the domestic market.

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18 January 2016 Ghana

Chainsaw milling project undertakes capacity building activities to enhance alternative livelihoods

A total of two hundred and twenty-five (225) people living in forest fringe communities received training in various skills last year under the Chainsaw Milling (CSM) Project being run by Tropenbos International Ghana with funding from the European Union.

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04 January 2016 Ghana

Identifying synergies between FLEGT/VPA and REDD+ initiatives in Ghana

Forests are not just an assemblage of trees, a reservoir of carbon stocks or mere items with a monetary value used for economic exchange but possess an inherent value for forest fringe communities; such values should be recognised and taken into consideration when drafting laws and policies on forest governance.

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04 January 2016 Ghana

Strengthening tree growers and their associations through capacity building

Over a hundred and sixty (160) tree growers in sixteen communities in Ghana have benefited from capacity building workshops organised by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana as part of a series of measures geared towards strengthening tree growers and their associations in Ghana.

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04 January 2016 Ghana

Award winners of the national schools drawing competition in Ghana go on a study tour to key forestry locations

Twenty school children from the Choggu Demonstration Primary School in the Northern Region, the Kultamise Junior High and the Ghana Senior High schools in the Upper East and Eastern Regions respectively which came first in a on Climate Change for Ghanaian school children were afforded a study tour of some key forestry locations by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana as part of their prize.

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04 December 2015 Ghana

Ghana Possesses Adequate Land for Extensive Forest Plantation Development

Statistics released by the Forest Services Division (FSD) of the Forestry Commission (FC) indicates that Ghana has available a total of one million, seventy-five thousand hectares (1,075,000 ha) of land for forest plantation development. Out of this, Six hundred thousand hectares (600,000 ha) are located in the off-reserve forests, three hundred thousand hectares (300,000 ha) in on-reserve forests in the Savannah Belt and one hundred and seventy-five thousand hectares (175,000 ha) in on-reserve forests in the High Forest Zone.

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