At least 1,230 hectares of forest plantation across three communities in the Kwahu East District of the Eastern Region have been restored as part of the Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small-Scale Mining Project (GLRSSMP).
The communities are Dwerebease, Hyewohoden, and Aseseso.
The project, which began in 2022, was a collaboration between the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), the Forestry Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Ghana Cocoa Board, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, PRO Green, and the World Bank, which funded the initiative.
The primary goal of the project was to rehabilitate areas of vegetation that were degraded due to the activities of herdsmen who had settled on the land.