Hi Kofi :-)

The link you supplied took me to an excellent article:
http://wwwghanapolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/let-us-preserve-atewa-range-rain-fo\
rest.html very good blog, well done and thank you.

Unfortunately the petition noted at the end of the article:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/protect-ghanas-atewa-forest
is now closed.
What a shame, I would have been happy to cross promote it. If it is your
petition can you extend/re-open it? Otherwise, perhaps you would like to start a
new petition using some of the words from your blog?
I would be happy to share such a petition with my internet friends.
I wish you success in this worthy campaign to save the rainforests of your
region.

Cheers
Anne


--- In ClimateChangeAction@..., "Kofi Thompson"
<peakofithompson@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Anne and List,
>
> Many thanks to you, Anne. Hello List - I am sharing this with you, in the hope
that we might get some ideas that we could work with here, in our still
largely-pristine little and forested corner, of the planet Earth! :)
>
>
>
> " Dear Kofi,
> I suggest you post your message directly to the group. Your membership has
been approved ... welcome :-)
> Warm regards
> Anne
>
> ________________________________________
> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 19:32:50 +0000
> From: peakofithompson@...
> Subject: Re: Yahoo! Groups: Welcome to ClimateChangeAction. Visit today!
> To: ClimateChangeAction-owner@...
> CC: marian@...; kaadam@...; wbonsu@...
> Dear Moderator,
>
> Many thanks for approving our request to join your global climate change
action group. Our family has farmed in parts of the Eastern Region of Ghana
since 1914 from the British colonial era, when our grandfather bought his first
farm (at Ntchawra, near Adukrom-Akwapim).
>
> At the moment, we are desperate to find a way to get the fringe forest
community at Akim Abuakwa Juaso, which lies at the foothills of the Atiwa
mountain range, to see the benefits of conservation, at a time of global climate
change. The rain forest there (where one of the only two uplands evergreen
forest reserves in Ghana is located) is under threat from illegal loggers, and
more ominously, recently, from renewed surface gold mining.
>
> Many farmers at Akim Abuakwa Juaso have sold their land to the mining company
(Solar Mining) operating in the area, mainly because they are so desperately
poor. Consequently, we are keen to find a way of leveraging some of the schemes
that pay landowners for conservation and for eco-systems services – so that they
can see that it can benefit them financially to hold on to their farmland and
conserve the rain forest at Juaso. Perhaps you and the members of the list can
help us – by giving us some ideas as to how to proceed?
>
> You can read an article in my blog about the current situation prevailing at
our section of the Atiwa range rain forest:
http://wwwghanapolitics.blogspot.com/2009/04/let-us-preserve-atewa-range-rain-fo\
rest.html
>
> Thank you once again for allowing us to join your list - and regards.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Kofi."
>