Discover how we’ve been planting trees with local communities to restore and protect the riparian forests around the Black Volta Basin in Northwest Ghana.

We’re working with Environment and Agroforestry Foundation (EAF) to promote the conservation and restoration of the riparian forests within the Black Volta Basin catchment areas in Northwest Ghana.

Discover how local communities in Ghana are working to conserve the Sacred Montonnso Forest through tree planting and sustainably managing their resources.

Paul Laird, ITF Programmes Manager, reports on our new partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Rural Agriculture and Development (CSRAD) in Ghana. ITF is supporting their project for the Conservation of Montonnso Sacred Forest.

News just in from our partner in Ghana, Sungmaale Integrated Herbalists Association (SIHA), funded through ITF Sustainable Community Forestry grant programme and Worktop Express.

In response to the threat to livelihoods posed by increasing desertification, members of the Kanpour Women Association (KWA) resolved to take responsibility for the regeneration barren land in Kanpour in the Lawra district and its adjoining communities in the Upper West Region.

The initiative is managed by Our Lady of Mercy Community Services based in Accra, Ghana and aims to plant 1000 mango trees in community orchards and provide training to local people on planting and cultivation of the trees.