Country

 

Ghana

Name of scheme

 

Ghana Wildlife Division’s vertebrate monitoring program

Biome (terrestrial; freshwater; marine)

 

Terrestrial

What is monitored

 

Human resource use and wildlife

Who compiles data

 

Government rangers

Number of community members involved

 

0

Spatial scale. Size of area monitored

 

516,500 ha divided on two areas (2003)

Methods used

 

Methods include, e.g., patrol records

Year of initiation

 

Late 1960s

Funded by

 

Government of Ghana

 

Documents or publications available

 

Brashares et al 2001, Brashares 2003, Brashares and Arcese 2002, Brashares and Sam 2005, Danielsen et al. in press

 

Organizers and contact details

 

Ghana Wildlife Division

Justin S. Brashares, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;. E--mail: brashares@nature.berkeley.edu

 

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