Forestry Commission decries rate of deforestation

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• G. K. Berko 11 years ago

  Go find a real job! Our Forests are all disappearing, setting our basic sources of life support in peril and this is what you come up with.
  
  Right now, the fast race to extinction of all the quality Timber Species is forci ...
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  Go find a real job! Our Forests are all disappearing, setting our basic sources of life support in peril and this is what you come up with.
  
  Right now, the fast race to extinction of all the quality Timber Species is forcing us to import Wood from other Countries to Build. We barely have anymore of Odum, Cedar, Kokrodua, Mansonia and others to build houses and furniture. So, the Government has begun pushing for importation of Wood from neighboring Countries.
  
  Why don't you use your Spiritual Powers to either accelerate the natural regeneration of our Forests to replace the Wood lost overnight, or charm the crooked, criminal Political leaders, especially the Government to pay the necessary attention to Protect the Forests?
  
  As go the Forests to expose the Land to the harsh elements, so go our sources of Drinking Water, the Fertility of the arable Land we farm on, our Cocoa Cash Crop that supports the Economy, and a host of other Forest derived produce, and Game. The Climate would totally change for the worst and diseases from skin Cancer to nutrient-deficient sicknesses would be rife.
  
  If you have any Spiritual Power to conjure a reverse to the state of our Forests, then do something about it now, or forever shut the heck up and advertize your quackery elsewhere, and let us brood over our misery in quietude.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• G. K. Berko 11 years ago

  No, the Forestry Commission hasn't done nearly enough.
  
  Our Forests are still under siege, and the Forestry Personnel are working under highly stressful conditions and even the daily threat to their lives.
  
  The Forestry ...
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  No, the Forestry Commission hasn't done nearly enough.
  
  Our Forests are still under siege, and the Forestry Personnel are working under highly stressful conditions and even the daily threat to their lives.
  
  The Forestry Commission has to tell us what it has done to stop the wanton destruction and encourage fast regeneration of the Forests.
  
  If there is any area of our System where Officials and Experts had to be coaxed to stay in longer beyond their usual retirement age, it is the Forestry and Game and Agriculture Sectors.
  
  The Government is reported to have forced many of the Forestry Professionals out to make room for younger, youthful replacements as a way of helping solve the employment situation in Ghana. But the consequence has largely been that preponderant inexperienced Professionals are now in the field and have difficulty managing the growing menace of the illegal Lumber and Galamsey operators.
  
  Meanwhile, the Forestry Commission could not see to providing the Field Officers the needed Field gear and supplies to facilitate their Work. They daily risk being gunned down or butchered by the criminals and have no way to offer effective resistance. So, the rampage goes on.
  
  Now, we have come to be importing Wood for the first time in Centuries of our existence! What an indictment of the Commission and the Government!!
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• NUKOMEKU 11 years ago

  We cannot go on as a nation without law- enforcement. Central government must be seriously concerned about the environment and tackle illegal activities which destroy our forest reserves as threats to the survival of the nati ...
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  We cannot go on as a nation without law- enforcement. Central government must be seriously concerned about the environment and tackle illegal activities which destroy our forest reserves as threats to the survival of the nation.
  Why wouldn't the state use the Armed Forces,Police, National Security and its REGSECS and DISECS, the Jungle Warfare and Unit and the Commandoes to take on these nation wreckers?

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