This year's bankrupt division of hunt­ing was launched aftermost Thursday at Mankessim in the Central Region with a attention to hunters to acquiesce wildlife brand in the country's forests to breed

The four-month anniversary brake beneath the Forestry Commission's Bankrupt Division seeks to "protect and conserve" beastly brand and populations, enhance biodiversity, and advice abate altitude change chal­lenges

During this period, it is actionable for anyone to hunt, capture, or abort any agrarian beastly except the grasscutter (Akrantie), which can be bolter alone with a li­cense from the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission (FC)

The abutting division which was launched on actuality with the affair 'Wildlife: A Heritage We Must Conserve,' will abide in abode from August 1, until December 1, this year. The Deputy Minister of Land and Natural Resources, Mr Akwasi Konadu, acclamation stakeholders said hunters should access accurate licenses for hunting grasscutters; contrarily they would be sanctioned

He acclaimed thatthe Wildlife Ability Administration Act 2023 (Act 1115) had been assented to by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to adapt the wild­life area and enhance socio-eco­nomic development

The Chief Executive of the FC, Mr John Allotey, declared that poaching activities in the nation's civic parks and ability affluence were acceptable a blackmail to the able administration of these facilities

He said frontline agents had been accomplished to abode this chal­lenge

Mr Allotey added acclaimed that wildlife plays a acute role in the country's development and is additionally a antecedent of herbs and medicine

He explained that to utilise assets in Ghana, a authorization and admittance are appropriate for activities such as hunting and trading in wildlife assets and products

Mr Allotey added that anyone who contravenes any provi­sion of the adjustment on the bankrupt division shall be accusable of an breach liable, on arbitrary conviction, to a fine

The Executive Director of the Wildlife Division of the FC, Dr Joseph Boakye, fatigued the charge to assure wildlife brand for reproduction and approaching generations

He apprenticed all stakeholders to coact with the Wildlife Division in adjustment to ensure acquiescence with the bankrupt division period

The Omanhene of Mankes­sim Traditional Area, Osagyefo Amanfo Edu VI, emphasised the accent of attention wildlife for sustainability and alleged on the government to abode actionable activities in the backwoods to aegis the reserves

In appearance were tradition­al rulers, chop bar operators, hunters, backcountry meat traders, and students

FROM ANITA NYARKOYIRENKYI, MANKESSIM