Agrointroductions Ghana (AiG) announced today that it was recently awarded a grant in the amount of $ 7 500 from the New England Bio-lab Foundation (NEBF) in support of its conservation project; “Strengthening indigenous and modern conservation practice for flagship species in Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary (BFMS), Ghana.”
Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary (BFMS) is one of the community-based ecotourism sites in Ghana protecting the resident black and white Colobus, (Colobus vellerosus), and Mona monkeys (Cercopithecus campbelli) which are important to the local peoples’ cultural beliefs. BFMS until recently enjoyed technical support from the Ghana Wildlife Division.
This recent lacking support has led to weak ecological monitoring at the sanctuary as well as other rising undesirable anthropogenic activities that threaten the sanctuary. Given the importance of biomonitoring activities for effective planning, co-management, and education on-site, it is the intent of this project to train and build the capacity of some community members to be able to carry out their own bio-monitoring activities. Through this project, we also seek to assess and restore degraded core habitats and mount grass-root education using indigenous and/or modern conservation protocols infringed communities and target groups to raise support for the sanctuary.
Partners: New England Biolabs/KNUST/Ghana Wildlife Division
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