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For decades, the Oda River Forest Reserve in Ghana’s Ashanti Region served as a lifeline for surrounding communities, providing water, forest products and ecological protection for farmers whose livelihoods depended on the natural environment.<\/p>\n
But for Aunty Maggie, a 60-year-old resident of Aboaboso near Jacobu in the Amansie Central District, the forest that once represented security and survival has become a painful reminder of how quickly natural resources can disappear.<\/p>\n
“We can no longer use…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For decades, the Oda River Forest Reserve in Ghana’s Ashanti Region served as a lifeline for surrounding communities, providing water, forest products and ecological protection for farmers whose livelihoods depended on the natural environment. But for Aunty Maggie, a 60-year-old resident of Aboaboso near Jacobu in the Amansie Central District, the forest that once represented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7053,13308,6238,4508,4509,8226,6918,36760,6477,257,6975,254,6859],"class_list":["post-242034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-double","tag-exploitation","tag-forest","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-illegal","tag-illegality","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-opens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-timber"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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