GHANA has a number of National parks and wildlife reserves, with many interesting species and a wide range of vegetation types. In addition, the Country has good beaches, especially in the Central and Western Regions, tropical lakes and rivers, waterfalls, and other scenic features. One of the outstanding places is the Kakum National Park. This Park occupies some 350 square km of moist evergreen tropical forests. About 40 species of larger mammals live in the park, Hogs and 7 primate species. Some 200 species, of birds are known, including 5 hornbill species, the frazer Eagle Owl, African grey and senegal parrots. In the North, mole national park covers over 4,000 square km of Savannah Woodland, with lion, buffalo, elephant and numerous antelopes.
KAKUM NATIONAL PARK Kakum National park is an island of tropical rainforest in a sea of agricultural lands-an isolated fragment of what was a continuous belt of rainforest extending from Guinea through Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Ivoire to GHANA. Degraded by mining, farming, and settlement, and combeb by hunters and timber extractors, Kakum now numbers a mere 360 square kilometers, and provides one of the last remaining habitats for 6 globally -endangered species, including Diana monkeys, bongos, yellow -backed duikers, and forest elephants, an estimated 550 butterfly species 269 species of birds, and 100 reptile and amphibian species.
Conserving this fauna and the intact habitat on which it depends requires finding ways for local people to live in harmony with Kakum. Scientific Research, heightened protection, and improved resource management techniques ensure that conservation strategies are firmly rooted in scientific understanding.
Interpretive materials like the Kakum visitor Center's Hidden Connections exhibit and the 100- football Canopy Walkway bring to life, and to public attention, the critical importance of healthy ecosystems. But it is a dedication to participatory planning processes and to identifying economic alternatives to forest exploitation -like ecotourism and sustainable enterprise-which ultimately makes the conservation of kakum sustainable.
LEISURE, SPORTS & RECREATION: Variety of entertainment and recreational facilities exist among them "Jazz Club, popular Drinking Sports, Night Clubs, pools, Tennis courts, Golf Courses, as well as sports stadia with soccer facilities. Ghanaians love soccer, especially after the famous young Starlets won the World Cup; and it is truly an experience to watch live Ghanaian soccer an excited, water sports( yachting, surfing etc.), including deep sea fishing, has a great potential for future development.
