![]() ![]() Mining's required use of toxic chemicals will destroy the water bodies that provide drinking water for millions of people. Rivers and streams in the reserves feed into major rivers that supply water to many villages, towns and cities. Ten to twelve thousand people depend on the forest reserves directly for their food and livelihood. At independence in 1957, Ghana had a forest estate of about 8.3 million hectares of which only 1.2 million is left today. Mining has already destroyed most of Ghana's forest cover and only 12% of this remains. The targeted areas include the Subri River Forest Reserve (the biggest in the country), the Supuma Shelterbelt, the Oppon Mansi, Tano Suraw and Suraw Extension Forest Reserves. ![]() The companies' bulldozers are ready to rip apart thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Ashanti, Eastern and Western Regions if the government gives them permission. mining companies, the Ghanaian government seems ready to pass legislation in June 2003 which will open the country's protected forest reserves to mining.
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