Kakum Forest elephants destroy farmlands in Assin South
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- 09 Sep 2022
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Rampaging elephants from the Kakum National Park Forest extension have raided more than three-acre farmlands estimated at GH¢60,000 in some farming communities in the Assin South District of the Central Region.
The crops affected were maize, yam, cocoyam, cassava, plantain, and cocoa which are the mainstay of the affected farmers, leaving them in despondency in the Assin-Abodweseso, Ongwa, Aboabo-Camp and Homaho communities.
Mr Emmanuel Kwabena Brewu, the District Director of National Disaster Management Organization (NDMO), confirmed the invasion to the Ghana News Agency, and gave the assurance of NADMO’s support.
He said in 2018, the marauding elephants visited and destroyed farms in Homaho, Kwafokrom, Domeabra, Kojo-Akuapem, Harunakrom, Seriboukrom, Aboabo-Camp and other 12 communities all in the district.
Mr Brewu explained that the elephants often migrated from their habitat in the forest in search fresh food and fed on anything edible particularly in the rainy season.
“The elephants’ invasion in the district has been a yearly occurrence. They often migrate from their habitats in the forest reserve in the area to destroy them just as the farmers are about to harvest them,” he explained.
He encouraged the farmers to adhere religiously to measures instituted by the Ghana Wildlife Service and other concerned authorities to protect elephants and to ward off the perineal attacks by the elephants. Read More...
