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Beekeepers protect forests. We will train at least 200 people living near Digya National Park to keep bees sustainably and to enrich forest habitat for bees. Honey selling reduces reliance on charcoal burning, hunting, timber-cutting and other illegal activities, reversing biodiversity loss.
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Situation
Many people living on the edge of Digya National Park have been forcibly evicted from the park. Others have moved here due to COVID as city jobs are lost. Forest resources are key to livelihoods in these remote communities, with high levels of unemployment and poverty. At present this reliance is causing forest degradation, not forest enrichment. Honey hunters damage trees if illegally collecting honey. The same people want to learn sustainable beekeeping and have demonstrated their commitment.
Solution
We will extend our beekeeping training to 9 communities between Donkorkrom and Digya Park. At least 200 new beekeepers will be enabled to make low-cost hives out of local materials, populate them with bee swarms and harvest bee products sustainably. They will join 400 beekeepers already trained, making a supply base for a new honey centre in Donkorkrom. This will bring new income to the area, reducing poverty and conflict with park rangers and create an economic incentive for maintaining forest.
