Forest production and biodiversity conservation in Ghana, and proposed international support of biodiversity conservation.
1998
Hawthorne, W. D. | Grut, M. | Abu-Juam, M.
Ghana has made great efforts to reconcile biodiversity conservation with the production of timber and non-timber forest products, to protect its forest reserves, and to gather information about them. However, the pressures to accommodate ever-expanding human population needs to which the forest is exposed in most tropical countries have affected Ghana too, and serious problems have arisen. A biodiversity conservation proposal is made, based on an extensive botanical survey published in 1995. The proposal was costed at $12 million over five years, including physical contingencies. Of that, $7 million represents net revenues foregone that would rightfully belong to local communities which own the forest. At present those communities, through their local authorities, benefit from timber revenues where logging is allowed but do not obtain similar benefits from forests where logging is banned. This acts as a disincentive for total protection. It is proposed that the international community should pay $10.1 million of the total cost of $12 million, i.e. 84%. This payment, which represents management costs plus revenue replacement for a period of five years, would be only a small proportion of the estimated global carbon sequestration value of the proposal, which is $135 million. The international community's 'consumer surplus' (= net global benefit) would thus be considerable.
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