For the past months, school children (in the Ahafo Region of Ghana) trained as citizen scientists, collaborated with researchers to assess the levels of biodiversity and ecosystem services of urban green spaces in the Sunyani municipality. They identified over 50 tree species and assigned various uses to the identified trees. Besides, they sampled arthropods and […]

Forest Aid Ghana strongly believes that when school children are empowered with the conservation skills and training right from the onset, they can better steward their environment. School children (hereafter Citizen Scientists) in a community called Terchire in the Bono region of Ghana were engaged in a two-week workshop to learn and practice how scientific […]