Reclamation of Natural Resources Destroyed by Illegal Gold Mining Activities in Ghana

Abstract

The development, sustainance and future of every country depends on equitable, efficient and proper use of all its natural resources. So is Ghana when it comes to uses of her natural resources such as gold, bauxite, oil, water, lands and forest reserves. Gold mining business which has been in Ghana over several decades has generated Billions of pounds sterling, dollars and Cedis to the Ghanaian boosting economic development in all sectors. The inexperience and greediness of most people in Ghana recently resulted in the overexploitation of the gold resource hence water, forest and land resources in order to mine the fine natural resources – gold. This has led to destruction of a lot of these natural resources such as lands, water, forest reserves, wildlife’s and now calling for its reclamation. This is the reason for this research paper. The research sorts to establish good reclamation practices that can be used to reclaim all degradable natural resources due to illegal gold mining business in Ghana. It is established after various equitable and effective practice elaborated that, stakeholder collaboration and participation of various sectors of the economy is very necessary towards the reclamation of the natural resources destroyed by illegal gold mining activities in Ghana for now and the future.