Tag: Kodzi

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s Institute of Industrial Research (CSIR-IIR), has organised a sensitisation programme on mangrove plantation, for residents of Kodzi in the Anloga District of the Volta region. This was to engage and educate the community on the importance and the uses of mangroves. Dr Trinity Ama Tagbor, the Principal Research Scientist and the leader of the group, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said that mangroves were important ecosystems because of their ecological and socio-economic functions and needed to be restored within lagoon communities. “Mangroves sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide thereby mitigating climate change at the local, national and international level and our project is to help educate the communities to plan...