»Older, Wiser but Ghana Is Less Green at 50
The first country in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence, Ghana turns 50 this month. While it may be older and wiser, it is also decidedly less green. Originally forests covered 36 percent of Ghana’s territory but by 2000 this had shrunk to just 10 percent, according to a 2004 report by the country’s Environmental Protection Agency.
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