Environment NGO maps out trees in land bank

Accra, Nov. 10, GNA - An environment NGO, Vision 2050 Carbon Project, has completed mapping out 2.04 million trees in its land bank in the Ashanti Region at the cost of GH¢100,000. This is the first of the seven regions with 130 million trees planted by 850 communities that were waiting to be mapped out at an estimated cost of GH¢13 million, a statement signed in Accra on Wednesday by Nana Bafour Nsenkyire Akosa II, Director of Operations of Vision 2050 Carbon Project.

It said the enlisted farmers in the project would be able to draw the appropriate level of grants from the project to cover their trees when the mapping out exercise was completed. The statement said the farmers with formal title to the trees they now own would be assisted by the Project to access loans from selected banks.

The Vision 2050 Project, which was established in 1988, with the main objective of recovering 50 per cent of the degraded forest of Ghana by the year 2050, has now acquired 560,000 hectares of land banks in the seven out of the 10 geographical regions. These land banks will enable the Project to plant 450 million trees. The Carbon Project that grew out of the original re-forestation and afforestation business is intended to also make a contribution from Ghana to the growing global menace from climatic change. 10 Nov. 10