Projects

A woman from Murugu cooking cassava

Currently, the main aim is to establish the Mognore-Murugu Community Natural Resources Management Project, working with two of the twenty-seven communities living around the Mole National Park in northern Ghana. This project aims to

reduce the incidence of encroachment by local people on the eastern side of Mole National Park,
empower local people to conserve their own natural resources, through developing a management plan for the site,
strengthen traditional conservation rules and enact district bylaws for protecting and utilizing the communities' wildlife resources, e.g. through establishing and maintaining fire belts, and
assist the communities to improve their way of life through developing sources of income, which could include beekeeping, dry-season gardening, tour-guiding, community cultural troupes and small-scale women's activities such as shea butter extraction, soap making and gari (cassava) processing.

Branches of the Eden Conservation Society have been set up in several regions. The members have undertaken the following projects:

the Dadieso elephant survey with IUCN funding
tree planting and river/soil conservation at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology campus, Kumasi
environmental education in schools and churches at Kumasi and Accra.