Lands and Natural Resources Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah has joined the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, and AngloGold Ashanti management to launch the Jimi Land Reclamation and River Watercourse Rehabilitation Project at Tasliman in the Ashanti Region.
The project is aimed at restoring degraded land and waterways through a multi-phase remediation programme involving land reshaping, heavy metal remediation, erosion control and tree planting.
In a statement announcing the launch, Mr Buah said the initiative would also involve backfill design, contouring and topsoil management as part of efforts to rehabilitate the affected landscape.
He expressed the government’s appreciation to the Asantehene and other stakeholders for supporting the ecological restoration effort.
“We must be as committed to restoring what has been destroyed as we are to stopping further destruction,” he said.
