By Solace A. DORNYO
The government is putting measures in place to see how best it can increase revenue from game and wildlife reserves in Ghana.
According to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Alhaji Collins Dauda, plans were far advanced by the executive to increase the current revenue from game and wild life reserves of about $60,000 dollars to $1 million dollars.
The government also intends to raise the annual average visits to the Achimota Park from about 20,000 to about 100,000 within the next five years.
Alhaji Dauda said the phase one of the setting up a new zoo in Accra has started at Achimota.
He said the Protection Area Development Programme, which started in 2005, with funding from the European Union for infrastructural development and general capacity building of the Ankasa and the Bia Conservation areas, was ongoing.
The programme is providing reception facilities and lodges for staff of the two tourist facilities, while tender has been opened for similar facilities at the Mole National Park and the Kakum National Park.
The government is putting measures in place to see how best it can increase revenue from game and wildlife reserves in Ghana.
According to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Alhaji Collins Dauda, plans were far advanced by the executive to increase the current revenue from game and wild life reserves of about $60,000 dollars to $1 million dollars.
The government also intends to raise the annual average visits to the Achimota Park from about 20,000 to about 100,000 within the next five years.
Alhaji Dauda said the phase one of the setting up a new zoo in Accra has started at Achimota.
He said the Protection Area Development Programme, which started in 2005, with funding from the European Union for infrastructural development and general capacity building of the Ankasa and the Bia Conservation areas, was ongoing.
The programme is providing reception facilities and lodges for staff of the two tourist facilities, while tender has been opened for similar facilities at the Mole National Park and the Kakum National Park.
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