{"id":3683,"date":"2024-08-27T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:50:43","slug":"ghanas-protected-forest-under-threat-from-illegal-mining-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Protected Forest Under Threat from Illegal Mining Activities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An unidentified miner has invaded the Draw River Forest Reserve, one of Ghana\u2019s major protected forests at Gwira Banso in the Nzema East District of the Western Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In what could mark the beginning of a chain of forest degradation through illegal mining, part of the forest has been cleared and excavators moved to the site ready for operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Management of Betterland Ghana Services, legal owners of a concession in the forest, has denied knowledge of the invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erastus Asare Donkor went on the ground to assess the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/Fight-Against-Galamsey_-Unidentified-miners-invade-Draw-River-Forest-Reserve-in-Western-Region.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified miner has invaded the Draw River Forest Reserve, one of Ghana\u2019s major protected forests at Gwira Banso in the Nzema East District of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}