Wildlife Society plant trees at Winneba to protect migratory birds

Winneba (C/R) June 7 GNA- Ghana Wildlife Society, an Accra- based non-governmental organisation (NGO), in collaboration with members of the Winneba Senior High School Wildlife Club, on Saturday planted tree seedlings along the banks of the Muni-Pomadze Lagoon at Winneba, to protect the vegetation cover.

The programme code-named "The Black Turn Twining Project", recorded the planting of 500 cassia and 100 Mahogany tree seedlings. The Netherlands sponsored programme aims at protecting the lagoon, which has become habitat for migratory birds from other parts of the world.

Briefing newsmen later, Mrs Fanny Nana Ampon, Communication Officer of the NGO, said the programme, formed part of the World Environmental Day Celebrations. She said the programme would ensure that the Black Tern birds, present at the lagoon site got conducive habitat as well as protection. Mrs Ampon noted that the presence of the birds is an indication of fish stock at the spot. "These birds feed on small size fishes in the sea or lagoon and where ever you see them in their numbers it is clear indication of abundant fish."

Mrs Ampon appealed to inhabitants along river banks and lagoons to avoid polluting and destroying such water bodies, but should rather help to protect them in order to promote effective ecological and socio-culture exchange of migratory bird species.