Improving biodiversity conservation and strengthening livelihoods in Ghana-Côte D’ivoire Border Area - GCP/RAF/447/GFF
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A network of forest reserves and shelterbelts in southeastern Côte d’Ivoire and southwestern Ghana exists, currently serving as a priority landscape that provides the habitat for a number of scattered elephant populations and other endemic or threatened species. As human activities expand and the process of habitat fragmentation accelerates, these animals are severely threatened and face increasing risk of extinction, as they become further isolated from each other. The identified area is an important biodiversity hotspot with an increasing population, in which people engage in subsistence agriculture and depend heavily on bush meat. Human-wildlife conflict has also been on the rise in the area, with little action taken to address the problem. In this context, the project aimed to establish a viable and sustainable Trans-frontier Conservation Area, linking forest reserves and protected areas in and around Bia in Ghana and Diambarakro in Côte d’Ivoire.