The newly instated Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Hon. Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh paid a visit to the Forestry Commission Headquarters, to formally introduce himself to the Commission’s management and staff.

The Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie together with his Deputy, Mr. John M. Allotey, executive management team and some commissioners of forestry commission, Chiefs and traditional leaders of Klagon, officials of the Tema Development Company, the Tema West Municipal Assembly, and Security Services paid a visit to the Sakumo Ramsar site  to ascertain the level of encroachment on the Ramsar Site, and take informed decisions on how to halt further encroachment of the site.

The Forestry Commission has inaugurated an audit committee to see to the improvement in the operational systems of the commission.

H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the Youth in Afforestation programme at the Kumasi Jubilee Park in Kumasi. Speaking at the launch, President Akufo-Addo announced that 20,000 youth were going to be deployed to plant trees to afforest the nation’s forests, and expressed the optimism that in the next ten years, the trees would have been nurtured to grow to increase the Ghanaian forest cover, thereby reducing forest degradation and deforestation

The attention of the Management of Forestry Commission has been drawn to a press release issued by Forest Watch  in Accra on July 31, 2018, which was signed by Samuel Mawutor, the Coordinator, on the above subject.