Biodiversity loss in Ghana: The human factor

AbstractBiodiversity is the total variability observed in species of all living organisms in relation to their habitats.  It deals with all microorganisms, plants and animals.  Loss of biodiversity in Ghana is due to human activities and other environmental factors.  The country loses a great proportion of its biodiversity, due mainly to unacceptable practices like slash and burn agriculture, surface mining, construction activities and bushfires.  Various conservation measures practiced in Ghana have been discussed.  These include forest reserves, botanical gardens, arboreta, gene banks, home gardens and wildlife protected areas.  The educational and environmental significance of these conservation strategies have been discussed.Subject review article. Received 04 Feb 14; revised 03 Aug 15

ガーナ国における野菜およびマメ類遺伝資源の調査と収集

The collaborative exploration for collecting vegetables and legumes was conducted from October 19 to November 11, 1993 with Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Crop Research Institute in Ghana. The itinerary and the route of exploration were shown in Table 1 and Fig. 1 and the number of collections of vegetables and legumes was shown in Table 2. Three hundred and sixteen seed samples and one tuber sample were collected and 305 seed samples were introduced into Japan. These were 13 eggplants, 59 garden-eggs, 12 Solanum spp., 39 chilli peppers, 90 okras, 30 cowpeas, 25 bambara ground nuts, 11 peanuts and 26 of other vegetables and legumes. Half of introduced seeds are preserved at the National Institute of Agrobilolgical Resources, and another half of seeds were sent to the curator of vegetables and legumes for preservation, characterization and propagation. National Research Institute of Vegetables, Ornamental Plants and Tea will characterize and propagate vegetable genetic resources