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Header photo: The group visiting Ghana’s only functioning bauxite mine at Awaso town © A Rocha Ghana
Ghana’s Atewa forest is the catchment area of three major rivers that provide clean water for 5 million people. The Forest presents one of remnants belt of significant forest cover for climate mitigation in Ghana. The Atewa forest is internationally renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity.
Still, the Ghanaian government intends to mine bauxite in this protected forest reserve.
Our local partner organisation A Rocha Ghana has been committed to preserving the Atewa forest for years. In 2018, A Rocha invited stakeholders on a field visit to Ghana’s only functioning bauxite mine at Awaso town. One of the participants was Nana Ampem Darko-Amponsah.
Like many others, he believed bauxite mining would bring economic prosperity. The visit to Awaso changed his mind. Now he is one of the people leading the local advocacy movement “Concerned Citizens of the Atewa Landscape”. Together with representatives of the 48 forest dependent communities around Atewa he is campaigning to save Atewa forest.
In this video, produced by A Rocha Ghana, Nana Ampem Darko-Amponsah shares his story.
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