Oil Palm Plantation, Ghana
Image Credit:
Ben Phalan
Coconut Plantation, Ghana
Image Credit:
Ben Phalan
Environmental issues in Ghana are similar to those in many neighbouring African countries including recurrent drought in the north which severely affects agricultural activities; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; poaching and habitat destruction which threatens wildlife populations; water pollution; and inadequate supplies of drinking water.
Ghana is party to a number of international environmental agreements including Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94 and Wetlands.
