Ghana Wildlife Service to train 200 teachers in Volta Region

Ho, July 8, GNA- The Ghana Wildlife Service (GWS) is to train about 200 teachers in the Volta Region on wildlife and environmental management to sensitise the youth on the importance of conserving and protecting flora and fauna.

Mr Frederick Buer Buernortey, the Regional Programme Co-ordinator of GWS, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview on Tuesday that the teachers would impart the knowledge to the youth towards a sustainable management and conservation of wildlife and forest resources.

He said 189 wildlife and environmental clubs have already been established and trained in the Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) and Teacher Training Colleges throughout the region as part of the National Voluntary Youth Movement.

Mr Buernortey said GWS, in collaboration with the Centre for Biodiversity Utilisation Development (BUD), had equipped the youth and groups in the region in snail rearing, bee keeping and other small-scale income generating enterprises as an alternative source of livelihood. He said the idea was to divert their attention from the constant degradation of the land.

"The country's wildlife and forest resources are declining on a more faster note due to our traditional systems of farming, bushfires and illegal logging," he said