Fact Sheet: Online Mapping to Fight Illegal Mining in Ghana
This fact sheet highlights efforts to monitor illegal mining in Ghana.
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This fact sheet highlights efforts to monitor illegal mining in Ghana.
Ghana is home to some of the most biodiverse and carbon-dense forests in the world. But more than a third of them have been lost in recent decades.
The Monitoring of Artisanal Mining (Galamsey) in Ghana Service is a monitoring platform with information on the location of illegal mining sites across Ghana and their associated land degradation.
The crucial role forests play in our world cannot be underestimated. To enhance preservation and monitoring of this natural resource, SERVIR and SilvaCarbon launched a series of global workshops this year in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, Hindu-Kush Himalaya, and the Lower Mekong region on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications.
To sustainably manage forest landscapes, governments and decision makers need accurate and up-to-date information on the extent of the forests they manage and the ways they are changing.
Issifou Alfari, Co-Chief of Party for AGRHYMET / SERVIR-West Africa, is profiled.
Firewood and charcoal provide more than 80 percent of energy used in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Agroforestry Centre, with only a small volume produced sustainably.
This service supports Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), is a low-cost land restoration technique used to combat poverty, hunger, and Sahara desert encroachments amongst low-income farmers by increasing ecosystem services; and resilience to climate extremes.