Banjul — The village of Galleh Manda in CRD recently hosted Joint Forest Park
Management (JFPM) signing ceremony for Medina Demba and kunkilling
forest parks, where twenty villages adjacent to the state forest
parks and the Forestry Department entered into agreement for
sustainable management of the forest parks.
According to Robert Boyker, Coordinator, Gambia Forestry
Communication Concept (GFCC), the signing of a management agreement
is part of the initial phase of JFPM. He said forest parks are state
forests that were demarcated since 1950's with the objective of
securing a permanent forest cover.
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