Kanania Community Constructs Fire Belt to Protect Transplanted Baobab Tress
Northern Ghana is characterized with a relatively short rainy season, spanning between April to September and a long dry season between October to March every year. Temperatures and other weather conditions, coupled with human activities have been identified as the leading cause of bushfire in most parts of Northern Ghana. In Kanania, an implementation community of the Climate Change Resilience of Ecosystem Services (CRES) Project in the Kasena Nankana Municipality of the Upper East region, the women groups embarked on the construction of fire belt around an area planted to 800 baobab seedlings. The activity was undertaken with support from…