A total of 120 wildlife and forest guards had been attacked between 2011 and 2013, some were attacked in church while others were attacked in their offices with guns and machetes. 62 of them got died.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, made this known at a press briefing on the alarming rate at which wildlife and forest guards were being killed in the country.

Mr Afari expressed worry about the leaders of society who watched people in the community engage in such dreadful acts, knowing the effects on the community.

‘What is extremely worrying is that these attacks take place within communities where opinion leaders and influential individuals are conscious of the effects of these acts on the ecology,’ he said.

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