Gambia: CRD Villages Sign Forestry Document

9 May 2003
The Independent (Banjul)

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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