Community watch committee arrest three illegal miners at Jema in Aowin area of Western Region

The incident highlights the growing collaboration between community-based environmental watchdogs and state institutions in the fight against illegal mining and the protection of Ghana's remaining forest reserves.

The three men were seen entering the Tano-Boin Forest Reserve and engaging in illegal mining activities along the bank of the Tano River.

JAGA said it expects the current case to receive the full attention of the relevant law-enforcement and judicial authorities, given the environmental and public-interest implications of illegal mining in protected forest reserves.