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Ghana Businessman Promotes Benefits of Maintaining Forests

Stacey Knott

   BREMAN BEDUM, GHANA - A World Bank report shows Ghana loses at least
   315,000 hectares of its forest each year. To help change that, a
   Ghanaian project is promoting sustainable forestry, teaching people the
   economic benefits of letting trees stand and surrounding vegetation
   live.

   Wellington Baiden calls his lush, 85-hectare forest a "green
   supermarket" -- it produces fish, wood products, seedlings, fruits, and
   essential oils.

   Baiden grows a range of trees, some fast-growing, many indigenous and
   endangered trees - as well as aromatic plants that produce natural oils
   used in perfumes.

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