One of the menaces that the tropical ecology is facing is unscrupulous behaviour of the youth escalating to unabated bush burning. The tropics covers vast lands of most African Continent. The lands covering most parts of African Continent, such as Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria are noted to be rich in minerals resources, and anchoring varieties of crops serving as sources of staple food and foreign earnings.
For some years now, the tropical ecology has been adversely endangered due to rogue behaviours of the youths in most parts of Africa especially, Ghana. The youth have developed some illegal norms which are hectic for the fire service department to monitor and prevent the ecology from deterioration. Among such practices are: setting fire into the bush to hunt for bush meat, indiscriminate logging for charcoal and timber, and continuous cropping practising slash-and-burn methods. These three practices have been threatening the ecology so much. The worse of this is that this year 2020, has recorded the highest lost of ecology, where hectares of lands were burnt throughout Ghana. Both farm lands and forests reserves were burnt where no debris remained on the ground.
What has been more serious about this sad situation is that, in areas deprived or remote, the issues have been subjected to family matter. That even if the fire volunteers arrest the culprits they settle the issue on family bases and leave these youth who have been causing these incidence. The situation has been carried out for so many years till now leading to most forest turning into grasslands. Unfortunately for this year, the harmattan season has prolong from November 2919 to March 2020. The rainfall pattern has been erratic, just recently that we experienced rainfall. So, the weather has been blazing throughout this season, and due to this when they set fire at one place, it quickly spread through other areas. This as a result gave the the fire service men to find it difficult to control it, so the situation got out of hand making every place burnt.
I can't in fact cross-estimate the number of cocoa farms as well as farm lands burnt. But, we have recorded cases of vegetations burnt all over Ghana. Most of staple food such as cassava, plantain, cocoyam and banana have burnt massively. Plantation farms such oil, oranges, cashew, mango and coffee did also burnt. One of the things that we are likely to face out of this situation is famine or starvation. Unluckily, the farming season has also met the contagious disease of Corona Virus, with Ghana recording 50 plus of infected persons. The number has been increasing daily, making the President to declare mass quarantine on this coming Friday and Saturday. On the other side, we are praying that the disease wouldn't affect our farming activities which will lead into something else for the nation.
Upon my feasibility studies, the situation of collapsing the ecology with its elements should be solved immediately with concrete measures, other than that if it prolong to the next 2030, most of living organisms, including burrowing animals and other species of wild life would cease to evolved, they will disappear, and this will be a sad news. Already, the vegetation cover has be depleted, and no longer in support of crop growth due to exhaustive nature of the nutrients in the soil, unless excess fertilizers are dumped into the soil. The continuous slash-and-burn, continuous felling of trees for charcoal and timber and indiscriminate burning have resultant effects of depleting the ozone layer leading to hotness in the atmosphere and erratic rainfall patterns. If this happens, human races are endangered too. Living become awkward for us.
In conclusion, every problem at least has elastic solution, and I can't this canker, without adducing one solution for combatting this devastating environment. Everything mentioned here has the cause being human, therefore, we need to educate the youth through public campaign and gatherings about the need to prevent the environment from damaging, opening their minds about the consequences that will come in long term if the environment is destroyed. On the second note, the fire service departments have to take the duty upon themselves to sensitize the youth in every community about the burning and its bad result. The forestry commission also have to monitor the forests reserves, not to be lured by these community youth, either bribery or family matters in order to curb the indiscriminate logging. The Ministry of Agricultural should also guide the farmers through their extension practices about the improve methods of farming. For all these solutions to hold, I think there should be by-laws about how the ecology should be handled.
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