The Bono Region has achieved about 89 per cent survival rate of tree seedlings planted in 2021 under the government’s Green Ghana project. Mr Stephen Mwinayelle, the Deputy Bono Regional Manager of the Forestry Services Division (FSD) revealed in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, that…
Licensed timber contractors who have privately recruited and armed security guards to guard their timber concessions have been directed to either disarm those guards or their licenses would be withdrawn by the Forestry Services Division (FSD).
It is meant to create a secure atmosphere for security guards of FSD to carry out regular checks and ward off or arrest illegal loggers (chain saw operators) to protect forest reserves.
Mr. Ebenezer Mensah, the FSD Manager for the Dormaa Forest District gave the directive at a meeting organised at the behest of Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II, the Paramount Chief of Dormaa Traditional Area at Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Dormaa Central Municipality of the Bono Region.