Atewa Range

The Atewa Range ( also called Atiwa - Atwaredu ranges ) is a chain of hills in the East Akim District of the Eastern Region of southeastern Ghana. The southwest lies the Kwahu Plateau, which in turn is adjacent to the Lake Volta.

The steep hills with flattened summits run roughly north-south direction. They are remnants of a peneplain (or " peneplain " ) from the Tertiary, which formerly covered the southern Ghana and has bauxite deposits. In Atewa Range is an important forest reserve and here forms three major rivers Birimian, Densu and Ayersu.

Forest Reserve

A large part of the area has been declared a protected forest area, including 17,400 acres of high-altitude evergreen forest, which is very rare in Ghana. The reserve is managed by the Okyeman Environment Foundation, which has restricted there agriculture and tried alternatively to strengthen eco-tourism in this area. However, the reserve is threatened by hunting for bushmeat and logging. It could be threatened in the future by commodity exploration, as here occur gold and bauxite.

A number of plant species in Ghana only be found here, also find here different bird species that are extremely rare in the rest of Ghana. An expedition that the area examined in 2006, discovered rare and possibly endangered primate species: the Geoffroy- Colobus (Colobus velleros ) and the Greens Colobus ( Procolobus verus ) and 17 rare species of butterflies including Papilio antimachus, which has the widest wingspan of all butterflies worldwide and the Mylothris atewa who is at risk worldwide.

Pictures of Atewa Range

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