 | WILDLIFE of GHANA / Die TIERWELT in GHANA v
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TYPE of WILDLIFE / EINIGE TIERARTEN  |
Boaben-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary
Tafi Monkey Sanctuary
| Mona and Pata monkeys ,Black and White Colobus , |
| Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site | Migratory Birds , Sea Turtle  |
Mole National Park 
| Over 90 mammal species including elephants, buffalo, roan, kob, hartebeest, 4 primate species and over 300 bird species. |
| Kakum National Park & Assin Attandanso Resource Reserve | 40 wildlife species of larger mammals, 200 bird species and over 400 species of butterflies. |
| Digya National Park | Six primate species including black and white colobus, elephants and a variety of antelopes,manatee and clawless otters. |
| Bui National Park | Primates,antelopes and birds present.  |
| Bia National Park & Resource reserve / biosphere reserve | GhanaSixty-two mammal species including 10 primates including the Black and White Colobus, chimpanzees,forest elephant and the bongo.Over 160 of bird species. |
| Nini Suhien National Park & Ankasa Resource Reserve | 43 mammal species including the bongo, forest elephant, 10 primate species.Rich bird fauna. |
| Kyabobo National Park | Forest and savanna species of plants and animals. |
| Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary | 161 birds consisting of 29 families have been recorded, 13 of which are listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). |
Black cobra disrupts seminar
Nkawie (Ash), Oct.5, 2007 GNA- Pandemonium broke out at a seminar on Career Programme Selection in the Saint
Justin's Anglican Church at Nkawie in the Atwima Nwabiagya District in Ashanti on Thursday when a big black cobra entered the hall.
The over 500 selected final year private Junior High School (JHS) students, their teachers and parents who were participants had to ran helter-skelter for their lives.
Calm was, however, restored when the video cameraman who was covering the programme mustered courage and
killed the reptile.
The seminar formed part of programme drawn-up by the District's Education Directorate to educate the final-year
students of JHS and Senior High Schools (SHS) in the district on Career Programme Selection, Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) and the new educational reforms.
Opening the seminar, Mrs Dina Appiah, District Director of Education observed that proper career choice by students largely determined their future status in society.
She advised the students to learn from other people's experiences and also take advice from their parents and teachers seriously. Mrs Appiah deplored the actions of some students who force their not-too-rich parents to send them to
boarding schools which are far from their area of abode and advised them to select schools that are sited closely to
them.
Mrs Mercy Oti-Appiah, District Guidance and Counselling Coordinator, said research had revealed that parents influence students' career choice so much that they become dictators rather than reasoning with them.
She said this usually resulted in poor academic performances of some hitherto brilliant students.
Mrs Oti-Appiah advised them to resist peer group influences adding that, "most students influence or copy blindly what their peers select for a career without thinking critically about it". Mrs Irene Comfort Badu, an Assistant Director of Education in-charge of School Health Education Programme (SHEP) said the lack of career guidance for JHS students usually resulted in poor career choice, which consequently push many of them into wrong jobs.
Source:
GNA
