This anniversary ban, accepted as the 'Close Season', is in accordance with the Wildlife Attention Regulation 197, LI 685.
During the mini-launch of the 2024 abutting division for hunting in Busunu, Savannah Region, beneath the affair "Wildlife: A Ancestry We Must Conserve," Savannah Regional Minister Mr Saeed Jibril Muhazu emphasized the accent of attention wildlife for accepted and approaching generations.
He accent that wildlife and biodiversity are not aloof accustomed assets but are analytical apparatus of our ancestry and livelihood.
Wildlife breed comedy a acute role in advancement ecological balance, acknowledging the Ghanaian abridgement through tourism, and attention the cultural ancestry of assorted communities.
Minister Muhazu bidding affair over the absolute threats to wildlife, abnormally in Mole National Park, citation poaching, abode destruction, altitude change, and animal conflicts as cogent challenges.
He declared that the abutting division is an befalling for anybody to accomplish absolute decisions, as it restricts activities that abuse wildlife, acceptance populations to balance and habitats to regenerate.
He additionally fatigued the accent of acquaintance conception and apprenticeship in attention efforts.
Deputy Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Sulemana Nyadia Nelson, emphasized the burning charge to action altitude change and assure backwoods awning and wildlife resources.
He acclaimed that this is not aloof an ecology affair but a altruistic crisis affecting everyone.
Mr. Nelson accent Ghana's abounding forests and assorted wildlife, showcased at Mole National Park, and alleged for accomplishments guided by acceptable backwoods and wildlife administration principles.
He declared that as custodians of the land, there is a albatross to assure and restore the nation's resources.
The Paramount Chief of the Busunu acceptable area, Busunuwura Jonokpowu, acicular out that the Busunu association has absent abundant of its acreage for the enactment of Mole National Park and appropriately has a cogent albatross to ensure the park's protection.
He alleged on the government to accommodate another livelihoods for displaced bodies to anticipate assailment on the assets area.
He additionally mentioned that the Abutting Division offers a acquittal for poachers and allows agrarian animals to carbon and thrive.
Busunuwura Jonokpowu bidding acknowledgment to the overlord of the Gonja Kingdom, Yagbonwura Soale Biikunuto Jewu I, and the Ndan Yaana of the Dagbon Kingdom for acknowledging and implementing the ban on common hunting in their corresponding regions.
The Forestry Commission annually announces the 'Close Season' to barrier the accelerated abatement of wildlife in the country's backwoods reserves.
The Commission has empiric that the abundance of biodiversity in Ghana is actuality absent due to encroachment, actionable mining, backwoods degradation, and dizzying hunting.
Reversing the abatement of wildlife is capital for comestible animal livelihoods and attention Ghana's heritage