Modernising old practicesEcoRestore is an innovative Ghanaian company that modernises old practices to implement sustainable landscape management. West Africa has seen a significant loss of forest cover in recent decades. Land use change, mechanisation of agriculture, use of chemicals, mining and logging, loss of fallow land and expansion of urban...
AN ISLAND OF BIODIVERSITY IN CHADThe Zah Soo National Park, the 4th National Park of Chad, with an area of 815 km², is the result of the conservation of the still intact core area of the Binder-Léré Wildlife Reserve. Located in the southwest of Chad, in a gradient of unique Sudano-Sahelian ecosystems, this mosaic of savannahs, gallery forests,...
A PROJECT TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIESThe recently approved bill thus provides legal support for the involvement of local communities in wildlife management through Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) and provides for a regime of higher penalties and sanctions for wildlife offences that will act as a sufficient deterrent to protect the...
How does the Jelinkon Crema work?Located in the western fringe of the Mole National Park, the Jelinkon Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) is a Community Protected Area with diverse fauna and flora dominated by shea trees (Vitellaria paradoxa), dawadawa trees (Parkia biglobosa) and covers 14,560 ha of community land.
The agreement...
WHAT IS THE COP ON BIODIVERSITY?The COP, "Conference Of the Parties", which recently took place in China, was the fifteenth edition of this global event which aims to set a roadmap and a global framework for the protection of biodiversity and different ecosystems by 2030.
The COP on Biodiversity currently brings together 196 signatory states of...
