This is the last surviving site in the world for the Giant Squeaker Frog. This species is on the brink of global extinction and Save Ghana Frogs is determined to give it a future.
Our work
Our work
Our work
We are supporting community-based conservation through two local Civil Society Organisations in Ghana at present:
Save Ghana Frogs
and the Kalakpa Club.
Save Ghana Frogs
We support Save Ghana Frogs and their work at Sui River Forest Reserve, in Ghana’s Western North Region. Save Ghana Frogs has a long-standing relationship with the communities around the forest reserve. They work together to protect the rainforest from threats such as logging, clearance for farms and forest.
The forest supports a host of other rare wildlife including several other threatened frogs. It is one of the few areas of Ghana where Chimpanzees having been recorded in recent years. The birds known from the Sui River forest include a number of Upper Guinea endemics, such as Yellow-casqued Hornbill, as well as Red List species such as Grey Parrot.
Save Ghana Frogs:
• supports alternative livelihood provision, such as developing bee-keeping, providing training, hives and equipment;
• provides a well-resourced education centre and gives scholarships to academically gifted but economically disadvantaged pupils;
• negotiates for illegal farms to be given up and replanted with native rainforest tree species;
• runs local tree nurseries;
• has a network of forest guardians;
• lobbies for recognition of the forest as a Community Resource Management Area and Globally Significant Biodiversity Area.
Kalakpa Club
PAW Ghana is a funder of the Kalakpa Club – or Kalakpa Reserve Friends and Activists Club, to give them their full name – in the Volta Region of south-east Ghana. The club supports the conservation of the Kalakpa Resource Reserve by working with local people.
The savannah and gallery forest of the Kalakpa reserve supports an important assemblage of birds. It is also of great importance for mammals, including the Critically Endangered White-thighed Colobus monkey, along with African Buffalo and an as-yet undescribed species of tree hyrax (a rabbit-sized relative of the elephant which comes out at night to call from the treetops – yes, seriously!)
However, the wildlife of the Kalakpa reserve is in deep trouble and there is severe poverty in the local villages. With people having no other options to survive, there is extensive illegal charcoal burning and hunting, whilst the valuable Rosewood timber has also been extracted in defiance of international legislation.
The Kalakpa Club:
• Supports alternative livelihoods by providing training in bee-keeping, coffee growing and other sustainable farming practices;
• Provides an eco-centre as a training centre and tourism facility;
• Raises awareness of the reserve’s importance;
• Works in partnership to restore the reserve to its rightful place as the biodiversity gem of the Dahomey Gap.
We are a UK charity,
registered in Scotland,
SC049317.
