Anthropogenic induced land use land cover dynamics of the Black Volta River Corridor in north-western Ghana, 2011-2021

Tengapoe, Kenneth; Baddianaah, Issah; Agyemang, Isaac

doi:10.1016/j.tfp.2023.100449

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“…The recovery of the open woodland in the reserve could be due to the ban that was placed on the logging of rosewood by the Ghana Government in 2012. This is because, for a similar period (2011-2021), Tengapoe et al (2023) reported a decline in woodland along the Black Volta corridor in the Nadowli District where there was no protection of the woodlands. The recovery is an indication that if the right management strategies are put in place, the vegetation of the Reserve can improve substantially.…”

Section: Land Cover Of the Gbele Resource Reservementioning

confidence: 92%

“…These negative effects on the vegetation cover of the country have contributed to the deteriorating environmental situation in the country. Parts of the woodlands in the Upper West Region (UWR) of Ghana are gradually turning into grassland, which could result in desertification in the long term if the trend continues (Amankwah, 2012;Tengapoe et al, 2023). Afriyie et al (2021) also observed that charcoal production has severe impacts on biodiversity in protected areas including the Gbele Resource Reserve and recommended that management planning should deliberately include mechanisms to detect the charcoal production activity and its effects on protected areas.…”

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Temporal analysis of the state of the Gbele Resource Reserve in the Upper West Region, Ghana

Aabeyir,

Peprah,

Amponsah

2024

Front. For. Glob. Change

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IntroductionThis paper assessed the changes in the forest cover of the Gbele Resource Reserve from 1990 to 2020. This provides a basis for strengthening management decisions to protect the resources in the Gbele Resource Reserve effectively.MethodsLandsat images for 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2020 were obtained from the United States Geological Service site. They were processed and classified in the System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing, & Analysis for Land Monitoring (SEPAL), a web-based cloud computing platform. The accuracy of the images was assessed using 50 ground-truth points obtained from the 3-5 meter spatial and near-daily temporal resolution planet satellite images from Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). Post classification change detection was used to analyse the changes in land cover from 1990 to 2000, 2000 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2020.ResultsThe analysis revealed that the total forest area was 55273.2 ha. In 1990, 74.9 % of the reserve was open forest and 24.6 % was shrubs/grass. The open forest declined to 65.8 % in 2000 and further to 62.4 % in 2010 while the shrubs/grass cover increased to 35.7 in 2010. As of 2020, the forest increased to 73.6 % while the shrub/grass cover declined to 25.8 %.DiscussionThese changes could be attributed partly to widespread charcoal production in the fringe districts and rose wood harvesting in the early 2000s. charcoal production and rosewood logging have been livelihood sources for fringe communities. The ban on the harvest and exportation of rosewood after 2010 could partly explain the sharp increase in the open forest cover from 2010 to 2020. The changes in the extent of the reserve from 1990 to 2020 revealed that the reserve can vulnerable to excessive exploitation and can also be resilient if deliberate efforts are made to protect it. It is recommended that the fringe district and municipal Assemblies should strengthen the enforcement of the ban on the logging of the rosewood and trees in the reserve for the production of charcoal.

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Section: Land Cover Of the Gbele Resource Reservementioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%