List of national parks of Ghana

In almost all parts of the country Ghana there are nature reserves, which significantly differ in their size and the target direction.

After your target direction you can find four different types of nature reserves. Firstly, the national parks have been designated around here a large audience as possible demonstrate the worth preserving nature and to interest people for their protection. Among the most famous national parks is one of the Mole National Park in the north with its classic savannah landscape as well as the well-known because of its location near the tourist center of Cape Coast has become Kakum National Park, a unique African attraction, in the treetops strained suspension bridges, offers. Here are specially trained rangers and game keepers hired by the year to bring visitors different plants and animals but also their value for the local environment and the traditional medicine in more detail.

Game reserves have initially intended to increase the population of native wild species. Across the country, is Bush meat, so wild animal meat, very popular. There are differences between the various ethnic groups. In most game reserves should be increased as meat suppliers for the indigenous population of the stock of wildlife. Only in the game reserves Boumfoum wild animal reserve and Owabi - wildlife reserve wildlife are fully protected. The animals in these parks may not be hunted.

Other Protected Areas ( Strict Nature Reserves ) have been designated to save species that are threatened with extinction. These protected areas are to be visited only with a special permit. This permit is usually issued only for research purposes.

Expressly to save the rainforest forest reserves have been established, in which in principle must be no clearing. In these forest reserves will be examined and identified ways in which sustainable forest management may be operated. The export of precious woods is a considerable source of income, but so far the reforestation has taken place mainly in the context of monocultures. In the forest reserves is intended to provide a broader basis a balanced vegetation forestry. Illegal logging and smuggling are still problems. Uncontrolled felling inventory of the rainforest remains vulnerable.

In addition to the national parks there are in Aburi, which is located north of Accra in the Akuakim Mountains, a Botanical Garden, which was created in 1890 by the British colonial rulers as an agricultural research station. Here also tropical plants that originally did not occur in Ghana grow. Specifically, the following national parks can be visited in Ghana:

• Mole National Park, established in 1971, Northern Region, 2500 sq km area
• Bui National Park, Brong- Ahafo Region, 2200 km ² area
• Digya National Park, Brong- Ahafo Region and Ashanti Region, 3,120 km ²
• Ankasa Nini - Suhien National Park, Western Region, 534 km ², of which about 175 square kilometers of untouched primary rainforest
• Bia - Tawaya National Park, Western Region, established in 1974, area: 308 km ²
• Kakum National Park, established in 1990, Central Region, 350 km ² area
• Kyabobo National Park, established in 1997, Volta Region, 340 km ²

Ghana offers the following additional wildlife reserves:

• Kogyae Reserve, Ashanti Region, 50,000 hectares
• Gbele wild animal reserve established in 1974, Upper West Region, 546.50 km ² area
• Owabi wild animal reserve, Ashanti Region
• Shai - wildlife reserve established in 1961 Greater Accra Region, 40 km ² area
• Kalakpa wild animal reserve, Volta Region 1000 sq km area
• Buabeng - Fiema monkey sanctuary, Brong- Ahafo Region, 80 ha
• Tafi atoms monkey sanctuary, Volta Region
• Boumfoum wild animal reserve, Ashanti Region
• Bomfobiri wild animal reserve, Ashanti Region
• Bobiri wild animal reserve, Ashanti Region