Natural Resource Management

The project will help implement Ghana's National Forest Protection Strategy, which targets priority forest reserves for increased protection, including setting aside Special Biological Protection Areas. Project will identify and exploit opportunities to increase the financial benefits of biodiversity, in particular through ecotourism, extraction of non-timber forest products and restoration of degraded lands through commercial plantations. It will also strengthen capacity in the Forestry Department to manage such activities. Associated project will improve the policy environment for sustainable forest management, promote local community involvement in woodland management in the savannah zone, and improve wildlife management while treating it as an economically productive element.