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Better Africa Foundation exists to promote better
life in Africa.
The
Foundation actively addresses and works on the issues of the environment,
human rights, medical education and treatment, sports education and activities
among primary and high school students, youth education and cultural exchange
programs as the vehicle for involving volunteers to address these issues.
Health and the quality of life in many African countries are destroyed by
the condition of the environment. Car, motorcycle and industrial pollution
in some African cities have reached epidemic proportions.
Better Africa
Foundation (BAF) focuses primarily on environmental education and
assisting local and indigenous organizations to help create a clean and livable
earth. The
goal
of this organization is to secure the support of at least one million people
to support the worthy mission of
Better Africa
Foundation in Africa. Will you join the one million concerned Africans,
African-Americans, Europeans, Americans, Asians, Canadians and all concerned
humans around the globe?
A Rocha is a Christian nature conservation organisation,
our name coming from the Portuguese for "the Rock", as the first initiative
was a field study
centre
near the Alvor Estuary in Portugal. As Christians all over the world have
recognised the urgent need to protect and restore important habitats,
A Rocha has
become a family of projects working in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North
America and Asia. A
Rocha projects are frequently cross-cultural in character, and share
a community emphasis, with a focus on science and research, practical
conservation and environmental education. All the
A Rocha teams
are dependent on the support of
A Rocha members
from around the world. Members contribute in so many ways - by serving as
volunteers on committees or at our centres, by their prayers and financial
support and by their ideas and encouragement.
Trees for the Future is a 501 (c) (3) charitable
organization in the United States. They provide seeds, training and technical
resources to families, communities and
organizations
interested in reforesting lands and maintaining sustainable agriculture
practices. Trees for
the Future is a grass roots, environmental and humanitarian organization
dedicated to helping people restore damaged, logged and abused lands. In
2002 over four million multipurpose, fast-growing trees were planted in more
than
6,000 villages in Asia, Africa and the Americas and requests for assistance
is increasing. Their programs support the people who plant the trees in their
own community, creating economic and environmental benefits. In thousands
of villages, people are working together, planting fast growing, permanent
beneficial trees. They're proving that devastated lands can be brought back
to
life
.
People are finding that both their living standards and their quality of
life is quickly improving. This program works because thousands of concerned
people, along with business leaders and private foundations, support the
efforts of Trees for
the Future in these rural lands. Their people-to-people action program
is made possible through tax-deductible contributions from more than 4,000
members in North America and around the world. Their efforts to work with
people to replant trees, gives everyone hope for the future.
The
Wildlife Division
of the Forestry Commission of Ghana is under the Ministry of Lands
and
Forestry. The Wildlife Division is the new name for what has been known in
the past as the Ghana Wildlife Department and also as the Game and Wildlife
Department. The mission of the Wildlife Division is to provide leadership
and efficient services in conserving Ghana's wildlife resources for the benefit
of
present
and future generations. Their web site provides you with information on all
the wildlife protected areas in the country, RAMSAR sites, and zoological
gardens. The site also offers information on Ghana's wildlife policy and
law, research opportunities within the wildlife protected areas and current
initiatives within the Division. There are five important current initiatives
within the Division that are having a dramatic impact on wildlife conservation
within the country. The five initiatives are the Protected Areas Development
Programme (PADP), the Kakum Conservation Area project (KCA),
the
Coastal Wetlands Programme, the Natural Resources Management Programme (NRMP)
and the Mole Development Programme. The Protected Areas Development Programme
is working at Ankasa in the wet evergreen forest zone and Bia in the moist
semi-deciduous forest zone of the country. The Kakum Conservation Area project
is located at Kakum in the moist evergreen forest zone. The Coastal Wetlands
Programme works at five sites in the mangrove zone of the coastal plains
while the Mole Development Programme is located in the woodland savanna
zone.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) (Headquartered
at the Bronx Zoo, U.S.A.), works to save wildlife and wild lands throughout
the world. For more than a century, WCS has inspired care for nature,
pioneered environmental education programmes
and helped sustain biological diversity. WCS supports programmes in
Africa to gather information on wildlife needs, train local conservation
professionals, and work with in-country staff to protect and manage wildlife
and wild areas for the future. For information on any of their current projects
in Ghana - detailed below - you can email them at
feedback@wcs.org :
Assessment of crop damage by elephants in the Red Volta Area.
Conservation of endangered primates in southwest Ghana.
For more information on Ghana, please click
here.
If you would like to
contact us please email
terry@africanconservation.org
