Ghana

En Afrique de l’ouest, la principale, sinon la seule, activité industrielle susceptible d’avoir un impact sur les aires protégées est l’industrie extractive au sens large. En effet, pour pouvoir pleinement remplir leur rôle écologique, les aires protégées sont généralement localisées loin des agglomérations et donc loin des zones industrielles. Seules les mines, en raison des spécificités géologiques locales, sont susceptibles de s’implanter à proximité d’aires protégées.

La présente étude a pour objet l'évaluation et l'analyse du cadre légal et institutionnel des Aires Protégées dans trois pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest: Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso et Ghana.

La présente évaluation de l'efficacité de gestion des sites Ramsar d'Afrique de l'Ouest a été réalisée à partir d'un échantillon de treize sites en Afrique de l'Ouest, répartis dans cinq pays (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia et Mali), francophones ou anglophones.

Protected areas in Ghana cover 5.6% of the country and are of economic importance as they contribute to improving standards of living of communities surrounding them. However, these protected areas are subject to pressures and threats, the main ones being poaching, bush fires and land conversion due to farming or grazing around or within the protected areas. There pressures and threats increase the protected areas’ vulnerabilities.

This report builds on the outcomes of the Ghana REDD-plus readiness field dialogue, held in Ghana in November 2009. Chapter 2 captures the context and status of REDD-plus readiness in Ghana. Chapter 3 highlights lessons learned from international and local experiences. Chapter 4 explores the challenges and ways forward for REDD-plus readiness in Ghana identified by the dialogue and concludes with a list of key actions that stakeholder groups need to undertake.

At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably.

At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably.

The workshop was organised to improve the understanding of the dialectic between water-related infrastructures and institutional frameworks in West Africa.